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On January 15, 1908, Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority, Inc. was founded on the campus of Howard University with inspiration
from Ethel Hedgeman Lyle. She was joined in her Salmon Pink and Apple Green
vision by Anna Easter Brown, Beulah Elizabeth Burke, Lillie Burke, Majorie
Hill, Margaret Flagg Holmes, Lavinia Norman, Lucy Diggs Slowe, and Marie
Woolfolk Taylor. These ladies were followed by a group of Sophomores so
that the Sorority would continue after the first group graduated. These
phenomenal women were Norma Elizabeth Boyd, Alice P. Murray, Ethel G. Jones,
Ethel Jones Mowbray, Sarah Merriweather Nutter, Joanna Berry Sheilds, Carrie
Snowden, and Harriet Josephine Terry. On February 11, 1909, these women
were the first to participate in initiation ceremonies.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., the first Greek letter organization established
by African American college women, was incorporated on January 29, 1913
to ensure longevity by Norma Elizabeth Boyd, Nellie Quander, Julia Brooks,
and Minnie B. Smith.
Currently, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. has a membership of 150,00+
women. Undergraduate and Graduate chapters are located throughout the United
States, the United Kingdom, West Africa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the
Bahamas.
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