In the 1960s, Fisk University stood at the center of Black intellectual life and organized resistance. Nashville was a testing ground for ideas, discipline, and strategy, and on Fisk’s campus, young men of Alpha Phi Alpha were being formed in that crucible. This was not simply fraternity life. It was preparation. Founded as the first Black Greek-letter fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha emphasized scholarship, leadership, and service at a time when access to power was still tightly controlled. By the 1960s, Alpha men at Fisk were studying philosophy, sociology, theology, law, and education while living inside the reality of the Nashville Student Movement, one of the most disciplined nonviolent movements in the Civil Rights era. Fisk students, including Alpha men, were trained to think critically, organize carefully, and move deliberately. The campus environment stressed that intellect itself was a form of resistance. The influence of nonviolent philosophy, shaped by figures like Alpha Phi ...