Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity Bethune-Cookman University. 1950.

Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity
Bethune-Cookman University. 1950.

Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity dressed in tuxedoes and prepared for a ball on campus. The group is composed of African American men who are all wearing tuxedoes and bowties. Some are wearing boutonnieres.

Four of the men are wearing white tuxedo jackets; the rest are wearing black jackets. The decorations include crepe paper hanging from the ceiling, as well as balloons and palm trees line the floor.

President Richard V. Moore is the sixth person standing from the left, and Dr. Texas Adams, the college physician, is the first man standing on the right of the image.

The photographer of the image is unknown.

Source: Bethune-Cookman University Photograph Collection