Eugene Kinckle Jones was a leader of the National Urban League and one of the seven founders of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity at Cornell University in 1906. Jones became Alpha chapter's second President.

The National Urban League, formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan historic civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of economic and social justice for African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States. It is the oldest and largest community-based organization of its kind in the nation. Its current President is Marc Morial.