Alpha Phi Alpha leads drive for Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial

King project pushes funds
Alpha Phi Alpha leaders said the fraternity's upcoming centennial celebration and annual convention should generate more chapter donations. The fraternity won congressional approval in 1996 to erect the memorial to King.
"We have the momentum now and we expect in short order we will raise the necessary funds and make this memorial a reality," said Darryl R. Matthews Sr., the fraternity's president.
King was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, which began at Cornell University in 1906 as the nation's first black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity.