<br>CC Poindexter

Charles C. Poindexter also known as CC Poindexter. Originally from West Virginia, he attended and later graduated from Ohio State and attended graduate school at Cornell University. CC Poindexter was registed at the College of Agriculture [1712].

CC Poindexter felt that there was a need to organize a literay group and social group. As a result, he called a meeting at the residence of Edward Newton, 421 North Albany St, Ithaca, New York. [1713]. CC Poindexter brought together what would become the founders of Alpha Phi Alpha in what initially was a literary society. CC Poindexter along with Henry Arthur Callis, Vertner W. Tandy, George B. Kelley, Charles Henry Chapman, Nathaniel A. Murray, Robert H. Ogle, Morgan T. Phillips, and George Tompkins were the initial members of the group.

CC Poindexter is credited as being the man who brought together the group that would be known as Alpha Phi Alpha. -- Skip Mason 12min 11 second Alpha Phi Alpha "A Century of Leadership" PBS Video. Two opposing views soon developed within the group, one for the continuation of a literary society and another for the formation of a fraternity. CC Poindexter felt the black community could not afford to have an to have such a group (fraternity), because of his observation of other fraternities on campus. Poindexter felt that such a group was frivolous in nature. December 4th 1906 resigned from the literary group on this date Alpha Phi Alpha was established as a fraternity. [1714] .

Poindexter was still the sentimental choice for Callis for that seventh spot as a founder (Jewel) of Alpha Phi Alpha, even until 1926. The one in question was not James Morton (whom Eugene Kinckle Jones replaced) but Charles Henry Chapman. cc poindexter&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1