HISTORY

Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ) Sorority, Incorporated, is America’s first Greek-letter organization established and incorporated by African-American college women. The organization remains a predominantly African-American sorority. The sorority’s membership, however, includes women of CaucasIan, Asian, and Hispanic descent. The sorority serves all mankind through a nucleus of more than 200,000 women in over 950 chapters. Alpha Kappa Alpha women can be found on every continent in the world. Alpha Kappa Alpha has responded to the world’s increasing complexity and continues to empower communities through service initiatives and progressive programs which have a direct impact for the African-American community. Alpha Kappa Alpha was founded in January 15, 1908, at Howard University by twenty college students known as “The Twenty Pearls.”

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