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In honor of her role as founder of AKA, in 1926 Alpha Kappa Alpha designated her Honorary Basileus, the only member with that title. [9] In 1951, the sorority established the Ethel Hedgeman Lyle Endowment Fund. [9] In 1994 Lyle's granddaughters, Andrea Lyle-Wilson and Muriel Lyle-Smith, were inducted as honorary members of Alpha Kappa Alpha. [9]
The hall was named after fellow Alpha Kappa Alpha founder Lucy Diggs Slowe, first dean of women at Howard University . [ 9 ] In addition to her work with the sorority (below), Burke was an active member of both professional - the National Education Association - and civic associations: the NAACP and the YMCA , in Washington, D.C. [ 4 ]
Alpha Kappa Alpha has a membership of more than 300,000 women internationally, with 90,000 active members of diverse backgrounds and professions. [2] Graduate members constitute the largest percentage of membership. [88] Alpha Kappa Alpha has more than 1000 chapters, located in the United States, the Caribbean, Canada, and South Africa. [89]
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 ...
BestColleges provides a brief look at the history of Black sororities in the U.S. and the role one played in the life of Vice President Kamala Harris.
In 1913, Boyd was the corresponding secretary on the first Directorate of Alpha Kappa Alpha. [4] She also was a regional director of the North Atlantic Region. Boyd chartered the Xi Omega chapter in Washington, D.C., where she served as president. [4] In 1934, she raised funds for the first year of Alpha Kappa Alpha's Mississippi Health Project ...
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.
MESOZOIC ERA (57A: Stretch of time aka the "Age of Reptiles") ME TIME: Each theme answer references a specific TIME, and has the initials M.E. While solving I noticed that all the theme answers ...