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Feb 10, 1887 St. Louis, Missouri, United States Died on 28 Nov 1950 (aged 63)
Founder of Alpha Kappa Alpha
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About Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
- Ethel Hedgeman Lyle (born Ethel Hedgeman, February 10, 1887 - November 28, 1950) was a Founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (???) at Howard University in 1908.
- It was the first sorority founded by African-American college women.
- Lyle is often referred to as the "Guiding Light" for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. Lyle had a forty-year career as an educator and was active in public life.
- She was National Treasurer of the sorority for more than twenty years.
- Ethel Hedgeman Lyle chartered (established) and was the first president of Omega Omega, its first alumnae chapter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Lyle also founded the West Philadelphia chapter of the League of Women Voters and the Mothers Club in the city.
- In 2000, the Ethel Hedgeman Lyle Academy, a charter school in St.
- Louis, Missouri, was founded in her honor. All these activities helped create social capital in the city in a time of rapid growth and population changes.
- Lyle demonstrated in her committed life how African-American sororities supported women "to create spheres of influence, authority and power within institutions that traditionally have allowed African Americans and women little formal authority and real power."
