Honorary membership is the organization's highest honor.
She is patient yet forceful, reserved yet powerful. She is firm in her belief that an education is essential if we are to be competent leaders and contributors within our society. She is a woman of high ethical and moral standards and embodies the aims and ideals of our sacred sisterhood. N.C. Other notable members include Marian Anderson, Ella Fitzgerald, Mae Jemison, Coretta Scott King, Toni Morrison, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Ntozake Shange. Founded in 1908 at Howard University, AKA has a membership of 140,000 women around the world, in more than 860 graduate and undergraduate chapters.