"Alpha Day" at the State house

2025-2026 Bill 5502: "Alpha Day" at the State house - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 5502
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House Resolution
Sponsors: Reps. Garvin, Scott, Bamberg, Alexander, Anderson, Atkinson, Bailey, Ballentine, Bannister, Bauer, Beach, Bernstein, Bowers, Bradley, Brewer, Brittain, Burns, Bustos, Calhoon, Caskey, Chapman, Chumley, Clyburn, Cobb-Hunter, Collins, Cox, Crawford, Cromer, Davis, Dillard, Duncan, Edgerton, Erickson, Ford, Forrest, Frank, Gagnon, Gatch, Gibson, Gilliam, Gilliard, Gilreath, Govan, Grant, Guest, Guffey, Haddon, Hager, Hardee, Harris, Hart, Hartnett, Hartz, Hayes, Henderson-Myers, Herbkersman, Hewitt, Hiott, Hixon, Holman, Hosey, Howard, Huff, J.E. Johnson, J.L. Johnson, Jones, Jordan, Kilmartin, King, Kirby, Landing, Lastinger, Lawson, Ligon, Long, Lowe, Luck, Magnuson, Martin, McCabe, McCravy, McDaniel, McGinnis, C. Mitchell, D. Mitchell, Montgomery, J. Moore, T. Moore, Morgan, Moss, Neese, B. Newton, W. Newton, Oremus, Pace, Pedalino, Pope, Rankin, Reese, Rivers, Robbins, Rose, Rutherford, Sanders, Schuessler, Sessions, G.M. Smith, M.M. Smith, Spann-Wilder, Stavrinakis, Taylor, Teeple, Terribile, Vaughan, Waters, Weeks, Wetmore, White, Whitmire, Wickensimer, Williams, Willis, Wooten and Yow
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Introduced in the House on April 2, 2026
Adopted by the House on April 2, 2026
Summary: "Alpha Day" at the State house
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

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4/2/2026

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Introduced and adopted (
House Journal-page 27
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04/02/2026

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RESOLUTION

to encourage all citizens to recognize and Honor
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. for one hundred and nineteen years of
contributions in its commitment of making our communities stronger and better
and to declare April 14, 2026, as "Alpha Day at the State Capitol."

W
hereas, Alpha Phi
Alpha Fraternity, Inc. the first intercollegiate Greek letter fraternity
established for African American men, was founded at Cornell University in
Ithaca, New York, on December 4, 1906, by Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry
Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel Allison Murray,
Robert Harold Ogle, and Vertner Woodson Tandy. These men, known as the
"Jewels," recognized the need for a strong bond of brotherhood among African
descendants in the United States; and

W
hereas, for one
hundred nineteen years, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has been a beacon of
light to the community by staying true to its aims of manly deeds, scholarship,
and love for all mankind; and

W
hereas, Alpha Phi
Alpha Fraternity Inc., has a membership of more than seventy thousand college-educated
men inducted into over seven hundred college and alumni chapters in the United
States, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean; and

W
hereas, this esteemed
fraternity continues to live out its mission of developing leaders, promoting
brotherhood and academic excellence, and providing service and advocacy for our
communities by contributing more than 2.3 million dollars in educational
scholarships and volunteering eight hundred fifty thousand community service
hours; and

W
hereas, Alpha Phi
Alpha Fraternity, Inc. counts many renowned citizens as members, including Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ambassador Andrew Young, W.E.B. Dubois, Dr. Louis
Sullivan, and Actor Omari Hardwick. Now, therefore,

B
e it resolved by the
House of Representatives
:

T
hat the members of the
South Carolina
House of Representatives
,
by this resolution, encourage all citizens to recognize and honor the
contributions of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. for one hundred nineteen
years of contributions in its commitment of making our communities stronger and
better, and declare April 14, 2026, as "Alpha Day at the State Capitol."

B
e it further resolved
that a copy of this resolution be presented to Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

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