ON THIS LAST DAY OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH. WE HAVE ANOTHER MILESTONE TO TELL YOU ABOUT IN ATLANTA CHAPTER OF THE NATION’S OLDEST BLACK SORORITY IN THE UNITED STATES IS CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF SERVICE. AUNGELIQUE PROCTOR IS A MEMBER OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INCORPORATED AND TELLS US THE LOCAL CHAPTER HAS CONTINUED THE
WORK THEIR CHARTER MEMBERS STARTED A CENTURY AGO. >>>>: 100 YEARS IS SIGNIFICANT, NO MATTER WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT. THIS BILLBOARD IS ACTUALLY CELEBRATING THE FIRST SORORITY GRADUATE CHAPTER FOR BLACK WOMEN IN GEORGIA. ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INCORPORATED KAPPA OMEGA CHAPTER. CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF SERVICE. 1923 IN ATLANTA WAS
A DIFFICULT TIME FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS. THERE WAS SEGREGATION , LYNCHINGS. JIM CROW LAWS, ATLANTA’S MOST FAMOUS SON, CIVIL RIGHTS ICON, DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR HAD NOT YET BEEN BORN. DESPITE IT ALL. 10 COURAGEOUS, COLLEGE EDUCATED WOMEN STARTED THE KAPPA OMEGA GRADUATE CHAPTER OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INCORPORATED 100 YEARS LATER,
BRIDGET GRANT IS THE CURRENT PRESIDENT AND NOW TO BE ABLE TO CELEBRATE CAPITAL OMEGA’S 100 KNOWING ALL THE THINGS THAT ALL THE ODDS THAT THEY HAD TO BE IN ORDER FOR US TO BE HERE. WOLF TAYLOR HAD BEEN ONE OF THE 16 YOUNG WOMEN WHO FOUNDED THE NATION’S FIRST BLACK SORORITY IN
AMERICA ON HOWARD UNIVERSITY’S CAMPUS IN WASHINGTON, D. C. TAYLOR WHO WAS A SOCIAL WORKER, CAME BACK HOME TO EXPAND THE SISTERHOOD AND ATLANTA. MARIE WOLF FOR TAYLOR WAS A MEMBER OF THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH THAT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 19 8. SHE WAS A LADY OF CLASS. SHE KNEW HOW TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE.
SHE WAS A GREAT MISSIONARY SORORITIES CORNERSTONES, OUR SERVICE AND SISTERHOOD. DONATION DRIVE IS CALLED PRETTY PACKS. MEMBERS WHO NORMALLY DON PINK AND GREEN ARE DRESSED IN RED TO SUPPORT HEART HEALTH MONK CHAPTER ASSEMBLED 1200 PACKAGES OF TOILETRIES FOR ATLANTA PUBLIC SCHOOL GIRLS IN NEED. MEMBERS SAY IT’S ALL ABOUT GIVING BACK A
REAL ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA WOMAN LEAVES AN IMPACT IN HER NEIGHBORHOOD. SHE GIVES UP HERSELF. SHE GIVES UP HER TIME, HER TALENT AND HER MONEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, WHICH IS OUR PHILANTHROPIC ARM BUILDING AND ELEVATED THE ATLANTA COMMUNITY BY AWARDING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS THROUGH SEVERAL PROGRAMS, INCLUDING A VERY
SUCCESSFUL DEBUTANTE COTILLION. OTHER INITIATIVES ADDRESSED LITERACY, EDUCATION, ECONOMICS, SOCIAL JUSTICE, VOTER REGISTRATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY. WITH A NATIONAL MEMBERSHIP OF MORE THAN 355,000 WOMEN. PERHAPS THE MOST WELL KNOWN MEMBER VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS. BUT IN THE CAPITAL, OMEGA CHAPTER MEMBER MARY FRANCES EARLY WHO IS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO
GRADUATE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, IS A TRAILBLAZER AND WE CAN’T FORGET DIAMOND MEMBER ANITA CARSON. WHO HAS SERVED WITH DISTINCTION FOR 75 YEARS AND IS 94 YEARS OLD. YES BUT WHAT IF SOMEONE JUST EXCITEMENT OMEGA CELEBRATES THIS HISTORIC MILESTONE CHAPTER BOASTS MORE THAN 500 MEMBERS AND VOWS TO CONTINUE SERVING AND IMPACTING
THE COMMUNITY. WE HAVE WOMEN TODAY, ALL KINDS OF FIELDS THAT ARE MAKING WONDERFUL IMPACTS. YOU WILL NOT FIND US ON THE SIDELINES. SINCE WE ARE IN THE FRONT. OF EVERYTHING I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OUR LEVEL OF SERVICE EXPLODE ACROSS METRO ATLANTA. IF YOU NEED HANDS, WE ARE THERE. WE
ARE HERE TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY THAT WE LIVE IN, AND THAT’S THAT’S OUR GOAL. THE CHAPTER WILL BEGIN THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION WITH THE GESTURE OF RESPECT AND GRATITUDE BY LAYING A WREATH THAT FOUNDER MARIE WOLF HAWK TAYLOR’S GRAVE HERE IN HISTORIC OAKLAND CEMETERY.
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