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[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY. Issues #1-#4 of the Heritage Series. [Chicago, IL: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., 1968-1971].

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[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY. Issues #1-#4 of the Heritage Series. [Chicago, IL: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., 1968-1971]. 8vos. 4 issues. Staple-bound pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITIONS OF THE FIRST 4 ISSUES (OUT OF 5) OF THIS SERIES HIGHLIGHTING THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN. 

Condition

Minor toning, rubbing, creasing to wrappers. Fine. 

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Titles of the issues include: Negro Women in the Judiciary, Women in Politics, Women in Business, Women in Medicine. The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority is one of the oldest and most important of the historically African-American sororities in the United States, founded at Howard University in 1908.