1920's
Still Creating
Launched and began program that would become the NHPC
Advocated for the Dyer Anti Lynching Act that came to fruition 100 years later and we were still there. Get details here.
1922 The Alpha AKAs help Dean Lucy Slowe create The Howard Womens' Dinner.
In the year 1921, AKAs raised at least $1500.00 in scholarships. The equivalent of about $1,500 in 1921 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $24,973.07 today,.
A landmark in the adoption of an action program for implementation on a national scale. There it was agreed a period to be known as Founders’ Week would be set aside each January.
During this period, chapters would equally important fact that these efforts by the various chapters were educating its communities and helping to promote interracial understanding and good will. Encouragement of high scholarship and assistance to deserving students has always been of major concern to AKA chapters. But by this action of the Baltimore Boule, the support of education and academic achievement became a major facet of national program and of internationalism, which was maintained throughout the years despite challenging diversification of national program targets. In the second quarter-century of its existence, AKA experienced a gradual but significant widening of its program activities.
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1922 - 1923 Ivy Leaf
By 1921, AKA had established the first ten undergraduate chapters.
1923 - Authorized History
War mother chapters
Purnell worked with the Rho and other chapters to become a War mother chapter.
The American War Mothers was founded in 1917 and given a Congressional charter on February 24, 1925. It is a perpetual patriotic, 501(c) 4 non-profit, non-political, non-sectarian, non-partisan organization whose members are mothers of children who have served or are serving in the Armed Services during a time of conflict.[1]
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