AKA Founders Trivia

This Founder was a Charter Member of the Xi Omega Chapter in Washington, D.C.

• Lavinia Norman

• Julia Evangeline Brooks

• Carrie Snowden

• Sarah Merriweather Nutter

This Founder was featured in the 1927 Who's Who in Colored America

• Nellie Pratt Russell

• Margaret Flagg Holmes

• Sara Merriweather Nutter

• Anna Easter Brown

This Founder was the First International President of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated

• Nellie Pratt Russell

• Joanna Berry Shields

• Minnie B. Smith

• Nellie Mae Quander

This Founder Represented Howard at the World Student Federation Convention in 1914.

• Minnie B. Smith

• Julia Evangeline Brooks

• Beluah Elizabeth Burke

• Sara Meriweather Nutter

This Founder was a skilled tennis player and won several awards for her talents

• Ethel Hedgemon Lyle

• Nellie Pratt Russell

• Lucy Diggs Slowe

• Minnie B. Smith

The Founder was employed at Howard University as a Switchboard Operator until her retirement.

• Marjorie Hill

• Minnie B. Smith

• Marie Woolfalk Taylor

• Carrie Snowden

During World War I, this Founder accepted a job at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C,, making and inspecting money.

• Harriet Josephine Terry

• Ethel Jones Mowbray

• Nellie Mae Quander

• Ethel Hedgemon Lyle

This Founder established the Non-Partisan Council, the first group representing minorities to lobby the United States Congress in 1938.

• Julia Brooks

• Norma Elizabeth Boyd

• Margaret Flagg Holmes

• Nellie Mae Quander

Joanna Berry Shields was a distant relative of which of the Original Founders?

• Nellie Mae Quander

• Lucy Diggs Slowe

• Lavinia Norman

• Norma Elizabeth Boyd

This Founder helped to secure a grant that increased the school year from three to six months for African-Americans in South Carolina

• Carrie Snowden

• Lavinia Norman

• Nellie Pratt Russell

• Joanna Berry Shields