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Originally posted by Rain Man
Alpha Phi Omega has 51 "black chapters" (read: issued 51 charters at HBCUs), the majority of which were long before the fraternity went coed. The first one was at Johnson C. Smith back in 1947, and the second was at Howard a year later.
I mention this because frankly, Alpha Phi Omega was one of the first fraternities to proactively push to break down racial barriers with regards to membership long before other GLOs even cared to even think about dealing with such an issue.
So as far as predominately white fraternities with black chapters go, Alpha Phi Omega was at the forefront of all-inclusive membership at a time when most orgs was just talking about it, APO was actually being about it.
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I've been thinking about all this the whole time through both Pike at Howard threads, but I didn't want Tom Earp to tell me that we didn't count.