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Kappa Iota Omega: Garysburg: North Carolina Active Kappa Kappa Omega: December 14, 1974: Pompano Beach: Florida Active [223] Kappa Lambda Omega: January 25, 1976: Nashville: Tennessee Active [224] Kappa Mu Omega: 1975 Joliet: Illinois Active Kappa Nu Omega: June 29, 1975: Jonesboro: Arkansas Active [225] Kappa Xi Omega: Texarkana: Texas Active ...
In Philadelphia 1926 she chartered and was the first president of Omega Omega, the first alumnae chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha in Philadelphia. (Eighty years old and with 400 members in the 21st century, the Omega Omega chapter continues to provide services to women and children in the city.) [9] [11]
For more than thirty years, from 1922 to 1953, Margaret Holmes was active in Chicago's Theta Omega alumnae chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha. She served as the vice-president and president of the chapter. Both the chapter and national organization raised funds in the 1920s and 1930s for scholarships, and contributed to the NAACP and Urban League. [6]
Kappa Alpha Order is a social fraternity and a fraternal order founded in 1865 at Washington and Lee University. [1] Chapter names were often reused in the early decades of the fraternity, and the final successor group normally goes by the shortened name, for example Mu chapter at Tulsa is the fourth to carry that name. [1]
Aug. 2—THOMASVILLE — The Lambda Xi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated celebrated its chapter birthday July 9. The chapter celebrated this year with a group of members ...
Members of Congress, all of whom are Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters, among them then-Senator Kamala Harris, the first female Vice President of the United States. This list of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorors (commonly referred to as AKAs [1]) includes initiated and honorary members of Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ), the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter sorority established for Black college women.
Alpha Kappa Alpha continued to grow internationally due to an effort that began in 1910 by the Alpha chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha. A second chapter at the University of Chicago was chartered in fall 1913. [28] The sorority was the first of Black Greek letter organizations at Howard University to offer a scholarship program. [29]
The sorority has been a critical source of support and sisterhood for the 360,000 some women that make up its ranks. Here’s how it became a force in American society.