Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 450

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(WOMEN'S HISTORY.) Records and ephemera of an Alpha Kappa Alpha chapter, including programs from the national Boulé meetings. 45 printed and manuscript items in one box; condition generally strong. Pittsburgh, PA and elsewhere, 1941-1966
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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority was founded at Howard in 1908 as the first national African-American sorority, with extensive membership of active members in graduate chapters as well as college students. These records come from Pittsburgh's Alpha Alpha Omega graduate chapter, and include:

Manuscript material from the Pittsburgh's chapter, including treasurer and membership records from 1950 to 1953, and a manuscript membership directory from 1951 with a decorative cover, giving names, addresses, and phone numbers.

5 printed items from the annual conferences of the sorority's governing body, known as the Boulé. They include a mimeographed songbook from the 1941 Boulé in Philadelphia; a mimeographed visitor packet for the 1947 Boulé in Cleveland (along with a detailed letter to a Winston-Salem, NC delegate authorizing her expenses); and two programs plus a blank notebook from the 1948 Boulé in Washington. The theme of this last Boulé was "Human Rights--Our Unfinished Business," and the public meeting featured an address by Dr. Ralph Bunche, then the Palestine mediator for the United Nations.

15 pieces of AKA national and regional printed ephemera: constitution and handbook, invitations, programs, song book, and 6 issues of "Ivy Leaf," the sorority's monthly magazine.

With--10 pieces of printed ephemera from other African-American sororities, plus a plaque certifying the N.A.A.C.P. membership of the Omega Grand Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, 1964.