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AKA PRESENTATION
Keon Shelby
Created on February 23, 2023
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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Founded January 15, 1908
In 1908, Ethel Hedgeman Lyle, along with 6 seniors and 2 juniors, began to establish the first African American sorority on the campus of Howard University in Washington, DC.
Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
Marjorie Hill
Beulah Elizabeth Burke
Lavina Norman
Margaret Flagg Holmes
Lillie Burke
Anna Easter Brown
Lucy Diggs Slowe
Marie Woolfolk Taylor
9 Originals
7 Sophomores
4 Incoporators
20 Pearls
Incorporated January 29, 1913
Minnie Smith
Julia Brooks
Nellie Quander
Nellie Pratt
AKA's Historical Impact
- 1st black greek letter organization to establish a scholarship on an HBCU campus
- Pushed for black women to be allowed to march for the Women's Suffrage Movement
- Fought for the passing of the Anti-Lynching Bill
- Started the Mississippi Health Project in the Mississippi Delta
- 1st to have a registered lobbyist with the National Non-Partisan Council of Public Affairs
AKA's Historical Impact
- AKA member to help argue a case before the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education
- Instrumental in the Civil Rights Movement
- Implemented the 1st Job Corps Center in Cleveland, OH
- Started a mobile mammography unit
- Raised over 1 million dollars in one day for 3 years straight for HBCU Endowments
- AKA member as the 1st African American woman as Vice President of the United States