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Women of Alpha Kappa Alpha have a wonderful history, we have been prominent in our communities by promoting education and  sisterhood. All women of Alpha Kappa Alpha are phenomenal

Rosa Parks, mother of the Civil Rights Movement and honored in "Fifty Black Women Who Changed America."

Soror Coretta Scott King- Civil Rights Activist, Director of Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change and Civil Rights Activism, founder of the National Political Congress of Black Women, INC

Maya Angelou, first African-American poet to read at a presidential inauguration, Pultizer Prize winning poet, and award winning novelist.

Jada Pickett-Smith- famous actress whose works include: The Nutty Professor, Set It Off, A Different Word, & All of Us,

Phylicia Rashad, well known actress for her award-winning role in the sitcom The Cosby Show and the TV series Cosby. She has notable Broadway credit including a rold on the Tony-Award winning musical Dreamgirls.

Star Jones, former co-host of The View talk show, lawyer, former Supreme Anti-Grammateus of Alpha Kappa Alpha, former legal analyst for Inside Edition, Today and Nightly News.

Ella Fitzgerald, internationally famous classical jazz artist, named outstanding performer of the year for eighteen consecutive years by Downbeat magazine, the jazz industry bible.

Dr. Mae Jemison-Award-winning novelist and poet. Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, and Grammy winner for Best Spoken Word.

Muriel Lyle Smith-Granddaughter of founder Ethel Hedgeman Lyle & President of Panache Productions.

Andrea Lyle Wilson-Granddaughter of founder Ethel Hedgeman Lyle.

Toni Morison-Nobel prize winner; novelist and poet whose works include Song of Solomon & Beloved.

Althea Gibson-Pioneer in amateur tennis & professional golf.

Jo Marie Payton Noble-Humanitarian & actress; star of Family Matters.

Eleanor Roosevelt-Humanitarian & former First Lady of the United States.

"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 often 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 descriptions 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 faces 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."

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