Women may join through undergraduate chapters at a college or university, or they may also join through a graduate chapter after acquiring an undergraduate or advanced college degree. The sorority is one of the nation's largest Greek-letter organizations consisting of college-educated women of many diverse backgrounds from around the world and serves through a membership of more than 300,000 women in 1,024 chapters in the United States and several other countries. Alpha Kappa Alpha was incorporated on January 29, 1913. Forming a sorority broke barriers for African-American women in areas where they had little power or authority due to a lack of opportunities for minorities and women in the early 20th century. The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at the historically black Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of sixteen students led by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle.
( ΑΚΑ) is the first intercollegiate historically African American sorority.
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