THE CHARLES H. WESLEY BROTHERHOOD AWARD. (AWARDED FOR JOINT INITIATIVES BETWEEN COLLEGE AND ALUMNI CHAPTER.)

Noted historian Bro. Charles Harris Wesley was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on December 2, 1891, and attended local schools as a boy. He graduated from Fisk University in 1911 and, in 1913, earned a Master’s degree from Yale University. In 1925, Wesley became the third African American to receive a doctorate degree from Harvard University. He served as Alpha Phi Alpha's 14th General President and the National Historian for seven decades .