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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated
On
January 15, 1908, at Howard University in Washington,
D.C., a young woman named Ethel Hedgeman, along with 15
other women, founded Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, making
it America's oldest premier Greek-letter organization
established for and by African-American women. The
sorority was incorporated on January 29, 1913.
From its
beginning, Alpha Kappa Alpha began to influence women in
America. The women of the sorority, cognizant of
the benefits of a college education, used their time,
energy and resources to assist young people, women and
African-American families. From the Mississippi
Health Project, to the Reading Experience, to
Partnership in Mathematics and Science, the women of
Alpha Kappa Alpha have used their collective education,
time and contacts from coast to coast and abroad to make
a difference -- to live their motto: "Service to To All
Mankind."
Alpha
Kappa Alpha's nucleus of more than 150,000
college-trained women in 882 chapters in 50 states, West
Africa, the Bahamas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Germany,
Korea, the Caribbean and England has become a force for
positive action.
As
demands of society have become more challenging and
diverse, Alpha Kappa Alpha women have kept abreast of
these changes and programmatically risen to meet them.
All that they do as a group and all that their
membership accomplishes is embodied in the objectives
for which Alpha Kappa Alpha was initially founded.
These objectives remain: to cultivate and encourage high
scholastic and ethical standards; to promote unity and
friendship among college women; to alleviate problems
concerning girls and women; to maintain a progressive
interest in college life; and to be of service to all
mankind. |
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