The Founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

These Founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha, stepping out of the shadows of slavery, brought to Howard University the freedman's mystic faith in, and yearning for education. They articulated their desire to "take our place in the vanguard of civilization" and they resolved to do this "by culture and by merit..."


Norma Elizabeth Boyd	Anna Easter Brown	Beulah Elizabeth Burke	Lillie Burke

Marjorie Hill	Margaret Flagg-Holmes	Ethel Hedgeman-Lyle	Ethel Jones Mowbray

Alice P. Murray	Lavinia Norman	Sarah Merriweather Nutter	Joanna Berry Sheilds

Lucy Diggs Slowe	Carrie Snowden	Marie Woolfolk Taylor	Harriet Josephine Terry