Marjorie Hill

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Marjorie Hill

Marjorie Hill, original founder of Alpha Kappa Alpha
Died 1909
Founders and Incorporators of
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
Margaret Flagg Holmes
Beulah Burke
Lillie Burke
Lucy Diggs Slowe
Marie Woolfolk Taylor
Anna Easter Brown
Lavinia Norman
Marjorie Hill
Joanna Mary Berry Shields
Ethel Jones Mowbray
Sarah Meriwether Nutter
Harriet Josephine Terry
Norma Elizabeth Boyd
Alice P. Murray
Carrie Snowden
Nellie M. Quander
Minnie B. Smith
Julia Evangeline Brooks
Nellie Pratt Russell

Marjorie Hill (died 1909) was one of the original nine of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated's twenty founders at Howard University. Alpha Kappa Alpha is the first sorority to be founded by African American women. Although Hill died, the legacy she created with Alpha Kappa Alpha has continued to generate social capital for nearly 100 years.

[edit] Howard University and career

After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in education and political science at Howard University in 1908, Hill taught at Morgan College in Lynchburg, Virginia. Hill was a "small, sweet girl" who fulfilled her tasks.[1] She died young in 1909.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Parker, Marjorie H. Alpha Kappa Alpha: In the Eye of the Beholder. (1979) p. 16.
  2. ^ Alpha Kappa Alpha Centennial: Founders. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. (April 2007). Retrieved on 2007-05-27.

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