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Image of a painting of Atlanta, Georgia native Marie Woolfolk Taylor, who was one of the cofounders of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the first Greek-letter organization in the nation to be established by black college women. The sorority began in 1908 at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and as of 2006 comprises more than 170,000 members.
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Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African American Civic Leaders
- African American College Students
- African American Greek Letter Societies
- African American Women Civic Leaders
- African Americans
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
- Atlanta
- Civic Leaders
- Georgia
- Greek Letter Societies
- Painting
- Societies, Etc
- Taylor, Marie Woolfolk, Ca. 1890 1960
- United States
- Women
- Women Civic Leaders
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