....We help each other for we know there's no other like out sisterhood...."
Twenty Pearls of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Ethel Hedgeman Lyle.
Beulah Burke.
Lillie Burke.
Margaret Flagg Holmes.
Lucy Slowe.
Marie Woolfolk Taylor.
Anna E. Brown.
Lavinia Norman.
Joanna Berry.
Norma Boyd.
Ethel Jones.
Sarah Meriweather.
Alice Murry.
Carrie Snowden.
Harriet Terry.
Nellie Quander.
Nellie Pratt Russell.
Minnie Smith.
Julia Brooks. Two women dominate Alpha Kappa Alpha - Ethel Hedgeman Lyle, the Founder and Nellie Quander,
the
organizer. Without either, the story could not be told. Ethel Hedgeman Lyle had the dream
and was wise enough to communicate her dream with a group of intelligent women who
understood it and the determination of Nellie Quander, four years later, saved the dream
and extended it's dimensions.