James Nabrit, Jr., was born in Georgia on September 7, 1900. He graduated from Morehouse College in 1923 and from Northwestern University Law School in 1927. Nabrit taught school in Louisiana and Arkansas from 1927 to 1930. From 1930 to 1936 he practiced law in Houston and later taught law at Howard University from 1936 to 1960. In 1938, he started the first formal civil rights law course in the United States and would later become president of Howard University.   Beginning in the 1940s and through the 1950s, Nabrit handled a number of civil rights cases for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, working with prominent attorneys such as ThurgoodMarshall, who became the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Notably, Nabrit argued Bolling v. Sharpe, a companion case of Brown v. Board of Education.

Jasper (Jack) Alston Atkins, a native of Winston-Salem, NC received his B.A (magna cum laude) from Fisk University in 1919. He received his LL.B (cum laude) and J.D. in 1922 from Yale Law School where he served as editor of the Yale Law Journal. He practiced with the firm of Saddler, Atkins & Wesley in Muskogee and Tulsa, OK until he and Carter Wesley moved to Houston in 1927. In 1935, J.A. Atkins argued the case of Grovey v. Townsend, an early civil rights case involving the Texas primaries, before the U.S. Supreme Court and later cases against the North Carolina School system. He died June 28, 1982.

Carter Walker Wesley, a native Houstonian, attended Fisk University and Northwestern University’s Law School. He met Jasper (Jack) Alston Atkins at Northwestern and the two practiced law in Oklahoma for five years during the 1920s. After earning a large sum in the Leonard Ingram case involving oil claims, Wesley and Atkins moved to Houston and set up a law firm that included James M. Nabrit Jr. – an Omega man from Howard University. (At one time, Wesley, Richardson and Carter were business partners and owners of the Houston Informer).

Born in Barbados, Dr. Rupert O. Roett graduated from Meharry Medical College.   He completed his internship and residency at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. On his way to California, he was persuaded by other Black physicians to stay in Houston. Together in 1919, they founded Union Hospital, Houston’s first Black hospital, at the corner of Howard and Nash Streets in Houston’s Fourth Ward. In 1927, this same group was also the nucleus that established and built The Houston Negro Hospital, which is now named Riverside General Hospital. His residence at 3274 Holman in the Third Ward was named and is a City of Houston Landmark. Rupert O. Roett, also thought to be a charter member of Nu Phi, was possibly an Honorary Member of Delta Chapter – Nashville, Tennessee.