AKA Sorority To Build Black Women’s Museum In Founder’s Former St. Louis Home

By Melissa Noel· Updated December 2, 2022

The former St. Louis home of Ethel Hedgemon Lyle, founder of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated (AKA), the country’s first African American sorority, will be turned into an African American women’s museum. 

The $4 million project is a partnership between The Gamma Omega chapter of AKA and the Ivy Alliance Foundation, the sorority’s nonprofit. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the empty home at 2844

Melissa Noel
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