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Howard faculty member Ethel T. Robinson encouraged Hedgemon by relating her observances of sorority life at the Women's College at Brown University. (Robinson and other female students could not participate in the existing sororities because of their race.) Hedgemon began recruiting interested classmates in the spring of 1907 to implement her idea.
Ethel Hedgeman Lyle (born Ethel Hedgeman, sometimes spelled Hedgemon; February 10, 1887 – November 28, 1950) was a founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority (ΑΚΑ) at Howard University in 1908. It was the first sorority founded by African-American college women. Lyle is often referred to as the "Guiding Light" for the organization.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by nine women who were known as The Original Group of 1908, and seven sophomores, honor students who are also considered founders and are known as The Sophomores of 1910. [2]
Howard University students walk in front of Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall on Friday, Aug. 22, 2024, ahead of alum Kamala Harris' presidential nomination acceptance speech at the Democratic ...
Name Original chapter Notability References Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, J.D., Ph.D. Gamma: 1919–1923. Mossell Alexander was the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in the United States, the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, one of the first Black women to receive a Phi Beta Kappa Key in the state of Pennsylvania, and the first ...
Then U.S. Senator Kamala D. Harris (D-CA) gives the convocation oration for the 2017 Howard University Commencement Ceremony in Washington, D.C., on May, 13, 2017.
This list of notable Howard University people (alumni sometimes known as Bison), includes faculty, staff, graduates, honorary graduates, non-graduate former students and current students of the American Howard University, a private, coeducational, nonsectarian historically black university, [1] located in Washington, D.C. [2]
Lavinia Norman entered Howard University, the top historically black college in the nation, at a time when only 1/3 of 1% of African Americans and 5% of whites attended any college. [3] Norman drafted the constitution for Alpha Kappa Alpha with Margaret Flagg and Ethel Hedgeman. After the sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, Norman ...