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Alpha Phi Alpha mentions a lot of organizations in our history, it just depends on which document you're reading.
When it comes to the founding:
Our founders did their best to locate other black fraternities to join rather than founding their own (!) and they found one lead, Pi Gamma Omicron in Ohio. When they checked it out, they found out there was a mistake and either the org never really existed or had already dissolved.
We also mention the all white fraternities that several of the founders had been waiters to when they were undergraduates. While explicit *help* was not given (we didn't need any for what Alpha was destined to be), it has been said that they were generally supportive.
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