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Chapter Charter date and range Founding Location City State or territory Status References Alpha: January 15, 1908: Howard University: Washington: District of Columbia: Active Beta: October 8, 1913: Chicago Citywide Chicago: Illinois Active [a] Gamma: February 12, 1914: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Champaign: Illinois Active [4] [b ...
The need for housing and private meeting space can be traced back to Alpha Chapter, where a committee chaired by George W. Myer, Jr. was charged in 1905 with the task of securing a meeting-room near the School of Commerce at NYU. In the fall of that same year, the chapter began to meet in a room at 28 East 11th Street, at a weekly rental of $1.
Alpha Kappa Alpha continued to grow internationally due to an effort that began in 1910 by the Alpha chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha. A second chapter at the University of Chicago was chartered in fall 1913. [28] The sorority was the first of Black Greek letter organizations at Howard University to offer a scholarship program. [29]
Clarice Redding Louis says she’ll never forget the day she was first introduced to Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. It was 2008 and she was 18 years old—a fresh high-school graduate visiting ...
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The Delta Chapter was founded by Elder Watson Diggs in 1915. The Delta Chapter was the last Chapter chartered under the fraternity's original name, Kappa Alpha Nu, and the first chapter designated after the fraternity's name change to Kappa Alpha Psi. Delta was the first chapter established at an historically black university. Epsilon 1915
Burke also established the second graduate chapter (Beta Omega) in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1920, and led as president for two years. [1] [11] Burke established the third graduate chapter (Mu Omega) in 1922 and served as the president. [1] Three years later, Burke organized and was the first Regional Director of Alpha Kappa Alpha's Midwestern ...
Members of Congress, all of whom are Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters, among them then-Senator Kamala Harris, the first female Vice President of the United States. This list of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorors (commonly referred to as AKAs [1]) includes initiated and honorary members of Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ), the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter sorority established for Black college women.