More than 4000 members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated will be in the city where their sisterhood all began this weekend when the 91st Central Regional Conference gets underway at America’s Center.
“Howard University gets to claim the founding of AKA,” said Kiahna W. Davis, Alpha Kappa Alpha Central Regional Director. “But St. Louis gets to claim not only the birthplace of the founder, but the birthplace of the vision.”
The year was 1907. Howard University student and Sumner High School graduate Ethel Hedgeman (later Ethel Hedgeman Lyle) was back home in St. Louis for summer break…