The originator of politically active women of Alpha Kappa Alpha. Norma Elizabeth Body (my namesake) was a Founder: Sophomore Group in 1908 and Incorporator in 1913. Boyd was an educator in Washington, D.C. public schools for more than thirty years, and expanded her students’ worlds by taking them to Congressional hearings. She was one of the most politically active of the founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha, with interests both domestic and international.
It is with a feeling of justifiable pride that I am happy to be a founder of this organization which has many wonderful, talented, dedicated women who are contributing much to the world of today —- a world which is so sadly in need of the talent, common sense and humanity of women.
Thank you to the original 9:
Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
Beulah Burke
Lillie Burke
Lucy Diggs Slowe
Margaret Flagg Holmes
Marie Woolfolk Taylor
Anna Easter Brown
Lavinia Norman
Marjorie Hill
The Sophomores:
Alice P. Murray
Sarah Meriweather Nutter
Joanna Mary Berry Shields
Carrie Snowden
Harriet Josephine Terry
Ethel Jones Mowbray
Norma Elizabeth Boyd
And the Incorporators:
Nellie M. Quander
Julia Evangeline Brooks
Nellie Pratt Russell
Minnie B. Smith
