Gamma Chi Chapter

In 1908, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., Ethel Hedgeman Lyle, along with fifteen other young ladies founded Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, making it the oldest international Greek-letter Organization established in America by and for Black women. Alpha Kappa Alpha was incorporated in 1913 and has grown from one undergraduate group of 16 members to an international organization. The sorority was founded to be an instrument for enriching the social and intellectual aspects of college life by providing mental stimulation through interaction with friends and associates.

Alpha Kappa Alpha cultivates and encourages high scholastic and ethical standards; promotes unity and friendship among college women; alleviates problems concerning girls and women; maintains a progressive interest in college life; and strives to be supreme in service to all mankind through a nucleus of more than 200,000 women in over 860 chapters.