On January 15, 1908, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. was founded on the campus of Howard University with inspiration from Ethel Hedgeman Lyle. She was joined in her Salmon Pink and Apple Green vision by Anna Easter Brown, Beulah Elizabeth Burke, Lillie Burke, Majorie Hill, Margaret Flagg Holmes, Lavinia Norman, Lucy Diggs Slowe, and Marie Woolfolk Taylor. These ladies were followed by a group of Sophomores so that the Sorority would continue after the first group graduated. These phenomenal women were Norma Elizabeth Boyd, Alice P. Murray, Ethel G. Jones, Ethel Jones Mowbray, Sarah Merriweather Nutter, Joanna Berry Sheilds, Carrie Snowden, and Harriet Josephine Terry. On February 11, 1909, these women were the first to participate in initiation ceremonies.
    Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., the first Greek letter organization established by African American college women, was incorporated on January 29, 1913 to ensure longevity by Norma Elizabeth Boyd, Nellie Quander, Julia Brooks, and Minnie B. Smith.
    Currently, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. has a membership of 150,00+ women. Undergraduate and Graduate chapters are located throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, West Africa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Bahamas.