Alpha Kappa Alpha is first a Sisterhood. A college based organization striving to organize a channel - a organization - established to promote unity. A spiritual need for an organization to cut across racial, national, physical and social barriers to help individuals to develop a constructive relationship with others. It is an organization - a union of thousands of unique college educated African American women who are founded be a powerful mystique. It is a society controlled by African American women - a business. It is finally, a composition of women who have chosen their pledge as a means of self-fulfillment through service.
The importance of the individual and the strength of organization which is that of women of courage and capacity, united by their acceptance of common values and working towards common goals.- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Who are Alpha Kappa Alpha Women?
Alpha Kappa Alpha women are college presidents, deans, directors of Fortune 500 companies, judges, mayors, and members of congress, state legislatures, city councils, and school boards. We are rural and urban teachers, counselors, and role models. An Alpha Kappa Alpha woman made the calculations for the automatic control system design of the first orbital flight.
Members are poets, musicians, artists, and dancers. They are fighters for civil and human rights. They are the strong mothers and wives of brave men who have carried burdens in the heat of the day. sometimes they are kinfolks--mothers, daughters, sisters--but they are themselves the leaders of catalysts. They make history whenever they come together.
There are no average or even typical Alpha Kappa Alpha women. They fit no common physical discreations or economic characteristics, yet they are all the same--these women who wear the twenty pearls. You can identify them by the smiles on their face and the love in their eyes. Beautiful Alpha Kappa Alpha women are young, mature, matriarchal, elderly, and venerable. Life polishes neophytes until they are shining silver stars, who then mellow into the glowing radiance of golden sorors...Equally lovely and beloved are the hundreds of sorors who have just passed their neophyte year and partake in campus activities, leadership training programs, and careful study of Sorority tradition.