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Originally Posted by Senusret I
Eugene Kinckle Jones, one of the Jewels of Alpha Phi Alpha, was also the first Executive Secretary of the National Urban League and was also a member of FDR's "Black Cabinet" -- the Federal Council of Negro Affairs.
Not "famous" but certainly well known among African Americans on a national scale in the first half of the 1900s.
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Quite a few of the NPHC founders are well known beyond founding the organization. I guess it also goes back to whose "famous" we're looking at and whether mainstream gives a damn about stuff like the NUL and the "Black Cabinet." I know that I do and your Jewel was "famous" in his own right in the early 1900s.
Delta Founder Osceola Macarthy Adams was one of the first black actresses on Broadway among other career highlights.
On another note, tne founder that many people know of in terms of American history and black history is Ernest E. Just. That's a name that sticks out for a lot of people even if they don't know he is an Omega founder (or if they don't know what Omega is).
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