Alpha Phi: Her Story

History of Alpha Kappa Alpha

Alpha Kappa Alpha women all over the world
proudly wearing their precious 20 pearls.

AKA, they founded January 15, 1908
at Howard University on that historic date.

Women called together by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
chose pink and green their colors, a lot of class, a lot of style.

Women providing service to an outstanding ideal
through friendship, sisterhood and love so real.

Women blessed by God above, in friendship and love
in a sorority as precious and peaceful as the white dove.

Women, by culture and by merit too, who strive to do their best
through high standards, moral character, a lot of zeal

Women with strength and endurance like the Green Ivy Leaf
promote the goals of service and sisterhood in our great sorority.

Women like the rose unfolding in shadows of pink and green
demonstrate fine characteristics of womanhood serene.

Women in the Virgin Islands, The Bahamas, Germany,
Korea, Bermuda, England, and the USA
are working together in service and sisterhood the
Alpha Kappa Alpha Way.

Alpha Kappa Alpha Women all over the world
proudly wearing their precious 20 pearls.

The Original Nine

Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
Guiding Light & Founder


Anna E. Brown	Beulah E. Burke	Lillie Burke	Marjorie Hill

First Treasurer

Selected the names and colors

Sister of Beulah Burke

First member to pass away


Margaret Flagg Holmes	Lavinia Norman	Lucy D. Slowe	Marie Woolfolk Taylor
Constitution Writer	Constitution Writer	First President & Constitution Drafter	First Secretary