American History
Which World War interrupted the first scheduled AKA Boule to be convened?
What is World War I
This Honorary Member is an award-winning singer and actress who was inducted in 2014
Who is Brandy Norwood
The 1993 autobiography written by Soror Maya Angelou who used poetry to cope with trauma.
What is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The official documentary film of the sorority which chronicles the organization's history from its establishment on the campus of Howard University to the election of VP Kamala Harris
What is Twenty Pearls
This founder was born on Easter Sunday morning and spent her life educating young people about black history. She wrote articles for the National Urban League Magazine and created an annual Negro History Exhibit for her North Carolina community.
Who is Anna Easter Brown
This former Supreme Basileus is recognized as a descendant of President George Washington
Who is Nellie Quander
This Soror was a Beta Chapter initiate who wrote the AKA National Hymn
Who is Marjorie Jackson
This honorary member is best known for her three NY Times bestsellers, “Brothers and Sisters”, “Singing in the Comeback Choir”, and “What You Owe Me” but is also honored for her advocacy in minority mental health awareness.
Who is Bebe Moore Campbell
This historical drama film about the Alabama voting rights marches, directed by Ava Duvernay, highlights the work of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King. Both Coretta Scott King and her daughter Bernice King are notable members of AKA
What is Selma
In 2017, Soror Dorothy Buckhanan Wilson led the effort to secure a trademark from the US Patent and Trademark Office to protect which sorority hand gesture
What is the pinky finger extending upward
She is the first Honorary Member of AKA. She founded Hull House, Chicago, IL in 1913.
Who is Jane Addams
What is the name of the National Founders’ Day Hymn that was written by Anna C. Rhodes
What is All Hail to Alpha Kappa Alpha
Nobel Prize-winning author, Toni Morrison who pledged AKA in 1950 at Howard University, wrote a notable book that was developed into a movie by the same name, produced by Oprah Winfrey.
What is Beloved
This 1988 movie stars Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, and AKA member Vanessa Bell Calloway, initiated at Ohio University’s Delta Phi Chapter.
What is Coming to America
The motto of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., the oldest Greek-letter organization founded by Black college-educated women
What is By Merit and By Culture
Alpha Kappa Alpha hosted a mobile health clinic in a rural southern state due to dire health conditions during the Great Depression. What was it called?
What is the Mississippi Health Project
This founder, one of the sophomores, wrote the AKA national initiation hymn for the sorority’s first induction ceremony in 1909.
Harriet Josephine Terry
New York Times bestseller that showcases the experiences of Black families along the beaches of Martha’s Vineyard. This novel marks the literary debut of Soror Sunny Hostin, a member of the Upsilon Nu Omega chapter.
What is Summer on the Bluffs
This Hampton University Gamma Theta chapter initiate, Wanda Sykes co-starred alongside Jane Fonda and Jennifer Lopez in this 2005 romantic comedy about the pains of a child getting married.
What is Monster-In-Law
This sorority historian and author of, “AKA In the Eye of the Beholder” is quoted as saying, “The leadership of Alpha Kappa Alpha has been the band of gold which has held the group together as it has moved forward
Who is Marjorie H. Parker
She was the First Black Woman to become a federal judge and is credited as being the architect of the legal strategy for the Brown vs Board of Education case that led to school desegregation.
Who is Constance Baker Motley
This Honorary Member is the first Black American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera.
Who is Marian Anderson
Soror Alice Walker is the first African American female to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature (1983) for this groundbreaking novel that chronicles the life of a southern woman in the early 1900s who survives abuse and bigotry in rural Georgia to eventual triumph as an entrepreneur.
What is The Color Purple
Soror Regina Taylor, initiated at Kappa Mu chapter, is a Golden Globe Award-winning actress who gained national attention for her role as a drug-addicted mother of a promising young female student in this 1989 film starring Morgan Freeman and Robert Guillaume
What is Lean on Me
When asked about being a sorority member, this astronaut expressed the importance of the confidence women can build in women-only groups as a part of leadership development.
Who is Mae Jemison