- On View
- Making a Way Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Making a Way Out of No Way
- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, founded 1908
- Northwestern University, American, founded 1851
- Date
- after 1908
- Medium
- metal
- Dimensions
- 1 1/16 x 1 1/4 x 1/4 in. (2.7 x 3.2 x 0.6 cm)
- Description
- An Alpha Kappa Alpha members badge with a stickpin back. The badge is in the shape of an ivy leaf with a green center. The badge is outlined with small pearls. Gold lettering appears in the green center. It reads “A. K. A.” The badge is attached to a gold chain. The chain is also decorated with pearls near the second pendant, which are the Greek letters GX. This is representative of the Alpha Kappa Alpha chapter Gamma Chi at Northwestern University.
- Classification
- Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
- Type
- badges
- 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.
- Object number
- 2013.133.2.3




