The significance of Vice President Kamala Harris’ membership in the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority is explained by its international president, Dr. Glenda Glover, who is also the first woman president of Tennessee State University.
In January 1908, 12 years before the 19th Amendment enfranchised women, a group of nine women students gathered on Howard University’s campus to create Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first sorority dedicated to the advancement of Black women and girls. Those nine, led by Ethel Hedgemon Lyle, created a blueprint for others invested in Black women’s leadership and advancement. With an international reach that now spans some 360,000 women, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
There are also five historically Black college fraternities: Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, Omega Psi Phi, Phi Beta Sigma and Iota Phi Theta. Taken together, those five fraternities and four sororities comprise the National Pan-Hellenic Council, affectionately known as “The Divine Nine.” Members of these organizations have been a part of every major movement for social change in modern U.S. history.
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