Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® is America’s first sorority founded by African-American women. The sorority was founded by nine women at Howard University in Washington, D.C., on January 15, 1908. Nellie M. Quander alongside Norma E. Boyd and Minnie B. Smith led the effort to incorporate Alpha Kappa Alpha to establish permanence. Alpha Kappa Alpha received its national articles of incorporation on January 29, 1913, as a non-profit organization.
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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® was founded on a mission comprised of five basic tenets that have remained unchanged since the sorority’s inception more than a century ago.
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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. ®’s mission is:
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to cultivate and encourage high scholastic and ethical standards,
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to promote unity and friendship among college women,
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to study and help alleviate problems concerning girls and women in order to improve their social stature,
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to maintain a progressive interest in college life,
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and to be of “Service to All Mankind".
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