Alpha Kappa Alpha 15th Boule conference at UCLA, Los Angeles, 1932

Item Overview

Title

Alpha Kappa Alpha 15th Boule conference at UCLA, Los Angeles, 1932

Alternative title

Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority

Date Created

August 1932

Date

1932-08

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Group photograph of about 125 members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority in the courtyard behind Kerckhoff Hall at UCLA. Helen Louise Riddle is standing in the next to last row within the center arch, centered between the ladies who are 3rd and 4th from the right in the last row under the center arch (representing the Sigma Chapter of the AKAs). A flower-covered sign reads "Boule 1932."
Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ) is a Greek-lettered sorority, the first established by African-American college women on January 15, 1908 at Howard University. The membership is for college-educated women.
Helen Louise (Wheeler) Riddle was a founding member of the Sigma Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at the University of Southern California (1922), and the first African American woman to graduate from USC Law School (1927). She married John Thomas Riddle, a USC graduate and USC football player.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

group portraits

Names

Kerckhoff Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
Riddle, Helen Louise, 1904-1956

Subject Geographic

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

-118.44335

Latitude

34.07036

Resource type

still image

Subjects

African American Greek letter societies