"Thanks, Ethel!"
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. was founded in this year.
When is 1908?
This 1913 event in Washington, D.C. saw 25 Howard University women, including members of AKA, march for voting rights.
What is the Women's Suffrage Parade?
These are the two official colors of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
What is Salmon Pink and Apple Green?
This AKA member made history in 2021 as the first female, first African American, and first South Asian Vice President of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
This AKA member made history in 2023 as the first president of the Alpha Gamma Alpha Omega Chapter of AKA.
Who is Henva Bhola Medlow?
The specific Howard University building where Ethel Hedgeman Lyle envisioned the sorority.
What is Miner Hall?
Known as the "Mother of the Freedom Movement," this AKA member sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This official motto translates to the standard by which members are chosen and conduct themselves.
What is By Culture and By Merit?
This member was the first African American woman in space, traveling aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
Who is Mae Jemison?
When is August 6, 2023?
The monumental event occurred on January 29, 1913, five years after the initial founding.
What is the Incorporation of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.?
Established in 1934 during the Great Depression, this AKA initiative was the first mobile health clinic of its kind in the rural South.
What is the Mississippi Health Project?
This official flower was chosen for its delicate beauty and unfolding potential.
What is the Pink Tea Rose?
These three AKA sisters were the "Hidden Figures" whose mathematical brilliance was vital to NASA's early space missions.
Who are Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson?
The name of the group of members at chartering who were not considered charter members.
What is ?
First published in 1921, this is the name of the official quarterly journal of the sorority.
What is The Ivy Leaf?
She was the first African American woman to win a major sports title when she won the American Tennis Association tournament in 1917.
Who is Lucy Diggs Slowe?
Two Envisioned Excellence interest group members who became Ivies Beyond the Wall before chartering.
Who are R... and Jordan ...?
This first official sorority activity, which became a long-standing tradition, occurred on May 1, 1908, when members planted sprigs of their symbolic plant.
What is Ivy Day?
Of the "Twenty Pearls," this number represents the original founders and sophomore founders, while the others represent the incorporators.
What is sixteen?
A member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., who is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former President of Liberia.
Who is Golden Soror Ellen Johnson Sirleaf?
What are Richmond, Rosenberg, Fulshear, Needville, Kendleton, and Wharton?