Alpha Kappa Alpha, Wofford College

2025-2026 Bill 5336: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Wofford College - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 5336
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House Resolution
Sponsors: Reps. Henderson-Myers, Waters, Dillard, Alexander, Anderson, Atkinson, Bailey, Ballentine, Bamberg, Bannister, Bauer, Beach, Bernstein, Bowers, Bradley, Brewer, Brittain, Burns, Bustos, Calhoon, Caskey, Chapman, Chumley, Clyburn, Cobb-Hunter, Collins, Cox, Crawford, Cromer, Davis, Duncan, Edgerton, Erickson, Ford, Forrest, Frank, Gagnon, Garvin, Gatch, Gibson, Gilliam, Gilliard, Gilreath, Govan, Grant, Guest, Guffey, Haddon, Hager, Hardee, Harris, Hart, Hartnett, Hartz, Hayes, Herbkersman, Hewitt, Hiott, Hixon, Holman, Hosey, Howard, Huff, J.E. Johnson, J.L. Johnson, Jones, Jordan, Kilmartin, King, Kirby, Landing, Lastinger, Lawson, Ligon, Long, Lowe, Luck, Magnuson, Martin, McCabe, McCravy, McDaniel, McGinnis, C. Mitchell, D. Mitchell, Montgomery, J. Moore, T. Moore, Morgan, Moss, Neese, B. Newton, W. Newton, Oremus, Pace, Pedalino, Pope, Rankin, Reese, Rivers, Robbins, Rose, Rutherford, Sanders, Schuessler, Scott, Sessions, G.M. Smith, M.M. Smith, Spann-Wilder, Stavrinakis, Taylor, Teeple, Terribile, Vaughan, Weeks, Wetmore, White, Whitmire, Wickensimer, Williams, Willis, Wooten and Yow
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Introduced in the House on March 11, 2026
Adopted by the House on March 11, 2026
Summary: Alpha Kappa Alpha, Wofford College
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3/11/2026

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03/11/2026

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.

W
hereas, 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

W
hereas, 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

W
hereas, 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

W
hereas, 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

W
hereas, 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

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

B
e it resolved by the
House of Representatives
:

T
hat 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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