Sarah Moore was born in 1897 in Pennsylvania to Rev. Lewis B. Moore, Ph.D., a distinguished African American educator, and Sarah Elizabeth “Sadie” Tanner Moore of the prominent Tanner family. After her mother’s untimely death in 1901, her father married Elizabeth Waring Moore, a respected principal of the Ivy School in Washington, D.C., Howard falculty wife, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, and house mother to Howard University’s Alpha Kappa Alpha chapter. Through these ties, Sarah grew up within two influential African American families both deeply rooted in education, leadership, and civic engagement on the campus of Howard University.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Sarah was a charter member of the Psi Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, founded in 1921. Psi Chapter was the sorority’s pioneering foothold at the University of Pennsylvania, extending Alpha Kappa Alpha’s legacy of fostering academic excellence, leadership development, and community service into the Ivy League. As a charter member, Sarah helped shape the chapter’s early direction, paving the way for future generations of African American women to access leadership opportunities in higher education.

In 1921, she married Captain Fisher Pride of New York, and the couple had one child. Sarah taught in Chester, Pennsylvania’s public schools, carrying forward her family’s tradition of service through education.

Sarah Moore passed in 1940, in Philadelphia, at the age of 43. Her life stands as a testament to the ideals of scholarship, sisterhood, and service—principles that were at the heart of both her family heritage and her beloved Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.

Greek Family Ties: 

Lewis MooreSr. , Elizabeth Waring Moore, Lewis Moore Jr., Maudelle Tanner Brown , 

Maudelle Brown Bousfield,  Sadie Mossell Alexander