Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority was founded on January 15, 1908 on the campus of Howard University in Washington, DC. Its founders were among the fewer than 1,000 Negroes enrolled in higher education institutions in 1908 and the 25 women who received Bachelor of Arts degrees from Howard University between 1908 and 1911. Nine juniors and seniors who constituted the initial core group of founding members and seven sophomores who were extended an invitation for membership without initiation comprised what are acknowledged as Alpha Kappa Alpha’s original 16 founders. Led by Ethel Hedgeman (Lyle), the nine Howard University students who came together to form Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority were the scholastic leaders of their classes. Each also had a special talent or gift that further enhanced the potential of this dynamic group.
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Sharon Sykes Chestnut
10 years ago
You have my full support!!
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DENISHA SEALS
10 years ago
Looking forward to see this stamp in production.
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Lanette Rousseve
10 years ago
As a former United States Postal Service employee it would please me to have the Postal Service support and honor our Sorority's Founder, Ethel Hedgeman Lyle for her vision and service to mankind. A Stamp in her honor is well deserved.
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Coffy Gray
10 years ago
Excited!!
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Renee Frazier
10 years ago
Proud member of the first and the finest...we continue to strive and do!
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Gayle Upson
10 years ago
Yes!
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Patricia Anne Hill-Flowers
10 years ago
Skee-Wee! Awesome!
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Melisa L Molsey
10 years ago
I'm honored to sign this petition honoring the Founder of the First African American Sorority.
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CAMILLE SPRINKLE
10 years ago
This will be an amazing and much deserved honor.
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Paula Conyers Walker
10 years ago
What an honor!
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Donna Walker
10 years ago
This is a honor to sign this petition honoring the Founder of the First African American Sorority. Strength, Courage, Wisdom to fulfill the mission of Service to All Mankind.
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Marlena Barginere
10 years ago
Who better to honor that a woman that had a vision that set a movement for black educated women to give back to our community at large.
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Lyndell M Scott
10 years ago
I wholly support the petition to honor Ethyl Hedgeman Lyle, our esteemed founder of Alpha Kappa Sorority, Inc. - the first sorority for black college educated women, with her very own commemorative stamp. She is more than worthy.
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Bettie Glover
10 years ago
Sign
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Tonya Jones
10 years ago
Well-deserved recognition for this awesome lady!
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Faye McLeod
10 years ago
It's time
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Margie Young
10 years ago
Great idea
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Emetrice Russell
10 years ago
What an honor!!!
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Doris M Chambers
10 years ago
We look forward to having a postage stamp,with this outstanding woman who served and launched this prestigious organization Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority was founded on January 15, 1908 on the campus of Howard University in Washington, DC. Its founders were among the fewer than 1,000 Negroes enrolled in higher education institutions in 1908 and the 25 women who received Bachelor of Arts degrees from Howard University between 1908 and 1911. Nine juniors and seniors who constituted the initial core group of founding members and seven sophomores who were extended an invitation for membership without initiation comprised what are acknowledged as Alpha Kappa Alpha’s original 16 founders. Led by Ethel Hedgeman (Lyle), the nine Howard University students who came together to form Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority were the scholastic leaders of their classes. Each also had a special talent or gift that further enhanced the potential of this dynamic group.
You have my full support!!
Looking forward to see this stamp in production.
As a former United States Postal Service employee it would please me to have the Postal Service support and honor our Sorority's Founder, Ethel Hedgeman Lyle for her vision and service to mankind. A Stamp in her honor is well deserved.
Excited!!
Proud member of the first and the finest...we continue to strive and do!
Yes!
Skee-Wee! Awesome!
I'm honored to sign this petition honoring the Founder of the First African American Sorority.
This will be an amazing and much deserved honor.
What an honor!
This is a honor to sign this petition honoring the Founder of the First African American Sorority. Strength, Courage, Wisdom to fulfill the mission of Service to All Mankind.
Who better to honor that a woman that had a vision that set a movement for black educated women to give back to our community at large.
I wholly support the petition to honor Ethyl Hedgeman Lyle, our esteemed founder of Alpha Kappa Sorority, Inc. - the first sorority for black college educated women, with her very own commemorative stamp. She is more than worthy.
Sign
Well-deserved recognition for this awesome lady!
It's time
Great idea
What an honor!!!
We look forward to having a postage stamp,with this outstanding woman who served and launched this prestigious organization Alpha Kappa Alpha.