How do sphinx and alpha phi alpha relate?

Answer 1

In answering this question, I would call your attention to pp. 261-262 of the Alpha Phi Alpha history book. And I quote James White, Jr., Alpha Phi Alpha, Epsilon Chapter, April 14, 1973:

"To the Alpha Phi Alpha brotherhood, African history and civilization, the Sphinx, an Ethiopian tradition bring new meanings and these are being interpreted with new significance to others. As Americans of European parentage point with pride to the ancestral history of their people, so Alpha Phi Alpha would have the Negroes of America look with pride upon African civilization with its kingdoms, its governments and its laws, its social institutions, its buildings and roads, and its evidences of indigenous progress, unaffected as it was, by outside influences."