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History of Alpha Kappa Alpha |
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Alpha Kappa Alpha
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., the first Greek-lettered
organization
established by Black college women (Anna Easter Brown, Beulah
Elizabeth
Burke, Lillie Burke, Marjore Hill, Margaret Flagg Holmes, Ethel
Hedgeman
Lyle, Lavinia Norman, Lucy Diggs Slowe, Marie Woolfolk Taylor),
was
founded on January 15, 1908 at Howard University. The following
group of
sophomore women were chosen to complete the first group so that
the sorority
would continue after those of the first group had graduated. They
were Most
Gracious Ladies: Norma Elizabeth Boyd, Alice P. Murray, Ethel
Jones
Mawbray, Sarah Merriweather Nutter, Joanna Berry Shields, Carrie
Snowden,
Harriet Josephine Terry.
One year later, on Febuary 11, 1909, the
first initiation
was held in Minor Hall at Howard University. In January 29, 1913,
Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority was incorporated to ensure perpetuity. The
incorporators
of Alpha Kappa Alpha were Nellie Pratt Russell, Nellie Quander,
Norma
Elizabeth Boyd, and Beatrice Smith.
Alpha Kappa Alpha has grown from one undergraduate chapter to an
international organization with a membership of more than 140,000
women. Our
membership consists of ladies of distinction and exemplory
character who excel
in scholarship, leadership and service. Our undergraduate and
graduate
chapters are located throughout the United States, West Africa,
the United
Kingdom, the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands, Korea, and Germany.
Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority, Inc. is the epitome of class, grace, and finer
womanhood.
Source: Alpha Kappa Alpha: www.auburn.edu
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