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The year was 1908, 45 years after the Emancipation
Proclamation and 12 years before Woman’s suffrage. Howard University was only
41 years old and eight women were in Howard University’s graduating class.
Illiteracy, substandard housing, unemployment, inadequate recreational
facilities, public services, and unequal justice before the law were pressing
issues. Realizing the direct relation between education and the social
progress of African Americans in the country, the idea was conceived by Ethel
Hedgeman Lyle and the founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. to make
education their hallmark. On Wednesday, January 15, 1908 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,
Incorporated, the first Greek-letter organization established by black
college women in America, was founded on the campus of Howard University in
Washington, D.C. They had a vision of college-trained women
providing service in various areas that affect our society. The efforts of
the founders in scholarship promotion, health services, and the promotion of
humane and civil rights constitute a central part of the African American
experience in America. After incorporation in 1913, Alpha Kappa Alpha then branched
out and became the channel through which selected college women improved the
social and economic conditions in their city, state, nation and the world.
Today, that tradition has continued--internationally, nationally and locally,
through a nucleus of more than 200,000 women |
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Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated is not responsible for the design
and content of these web pages. They are the sole property and responsibility of the Pi Gamma
Chapter who hosts and maintains this web site. Website questions: [email protected]om Updated 08.08.2008 |
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