Logo pin for The Founders' Window membership of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

An Alpha Kappa Alpha metal logo with a small metal loop attached to the top. The rectangular pendant has brass ivy vines over a yellowish background. At the top of the pendant is “SORORITY.” At the center of the pendant is “A K A” embossed vertically.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1974
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, founded 1908
• Subject of: Bernice Sumlin, American, born 1926
• Type: logos
• Medium: metal
• Dimensions: 1 1/8 x 7/8 x 1/8 in. (2.9 x 2.2 x 0.3 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Sororities
• Topic: Women
• Topic: Women's organizations
• Object number: 2013.133.2.20
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Historical Society of Washington, DC and the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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