South Carolina H 5336: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Wofford College

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2025-2026 Bill 5336 Text of Previous Version (Mar. 11, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 5336

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A house RESOLUTION

To celebrate the historic chartering of Alpha Kappa 
Alpha Sorority Inc. at Wofford College and to wish them much success as they 
carry out the sorority's mission to cultivate and encourage high scholastic and 
ethical standards, and to be of service to all mankind.

Whereas, founded in 
1854, Wofford College is a distinguished liberal arts institution in 
Spartanburg that voluntarily desegregated in 1964 and expanded opportunities 
for Black women in the early 1970s; and

Whereas, in 1973, 
Janice Brewton Means became the first African American woman to graduate from 
Wofford, establishing a legacy of excellence carried forward by generations of 
high-achieving Black women scholars; and

Whereas, Greek life is 
central to campus leadership and engagement, yet until now, no National 
Pan-Hellenic Council sorority has held a chartered collegiate presence at 
Wofford; and

Whereas, since 1980, 
Wofford has maintained a meaningful relationship with the Epsilon Beta Omega 
Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. with dedicated members and 
college leaders working faithfully to bring a chartered chapter to campus. This 
storied sorority has a history of firsts that stem from its founding as the 
first intercollegiate historically Black sorority founded on January 15, 1908, 
at Howard University in Washington, D.C. In 1939, it became the first 
organization to take a life membership in the NAACP earning another distinction 
as a trailblazer. In 2025, Alpha Kappa Alpha had more than 365,000 members in 
1,085 chapters in the United States and eleven other countries; and 

Whereas, on March 22, 
2026, through the leadership of the Honorable Tiffany Moore Russell Esq. 20th 
South Atlantic Regional Director, and in partnership with Wofford College and 
Epsilon Beta Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. was officially 
chartered at Wofford College, becoming the first National Pan-Hellenic Council 
sorority established on campus; and

Whereas, these seventeen 
charter members will carry forward a legacy of sisterhood that is, and will 
remain, sincere and rare. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives:

That the members of the 
South Carolina House of Representatives, 
by this resolution, celebrate the historic chartering of Alpha Kappa Alpha 
Sorority Inc. at Wofford College and wish them much success as they carry out 
the sorority's mission to cultivate and encourage high scholastic and ethical 
standards, and to be of service to all mankind.

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