January 15, 1908
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated (AKA) is an international service organization that was founded on January 15, 1908, on the campus of Howard University, in Washington, D.C. It is the oldest Greek-letter
organization established by African American college-educated women. Alpha Kappa Alpha is comprised of nearly 300,000 members in approximately 1,022 graduate and undergraduate chapters in the United States, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Liberia, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, Dubai, Germany, Japan, Liberia, and South Korea.
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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Founders Norma Boyd * Anna Easter Brown * Beulah Burke * Lillie Burke * Marjorie Hill * Margaret Flagg Holmes * Ethel Hedgemon (Lyle) * Ethel Jones (Mowbray) * Alice Murray * Lavinia Norman * Sarah Meriweather (Nutter) * Joanna Berry (Shields) * Lucy Diggs Slowe * Carrie Snowden * Marie Woolfolk (Taylor) * Harriet Terry *
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