Photograph of magazine page showing Charter Member Olga Garrett Chellis and Bessie M. Johnson of the Eta Omega Omega Chapter honring Hon. Kivie Kaplan, National Life Membership Chairman of the N.A.A.C.P. with a check for $1000 for a Special Fund of…
Photograph of Charter Member Olga Garrett Chellis holding the certificate of chartering for the Eta Omega Omega Bronx Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
In this recording, part of a larger video memoir project, lifetime activist and educator Suzanne Ross remembers the development of her morality as a child (starting at 00:09:58), both in Mozambique, while observing the life of her family's Black…
Compilation of oral histories from Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. prepared for "A Preservation of History: Archival/Repository Collection, 1964–Present" event at Wave Hill, The Bronx, New York, September 26, 2021,…
In this recording, part of a larger video memoir project, lifetime activist and educator Suzanne Ross recalls her early experience of being exposed to Zionism in Palestine on the kibbutz in the 1940s, before the creation of the state of Israel.…
In this recording, part of a larger video memoir project, lifetime activist and educator Suzanne Ross narrates her immediate family's escape from the Holocaust. Much of her family did not make it out of Europe alive. Suzanne reflects on the…
Collage of Eta Omega Omega Chapter Charter Members Nearlene Bertin, Marietta J. Tanner, Bessie M. Johnson, Gwendolyn B. Bland, Irma Wilson, Gladys B. Simms, Joan Silvey Drane, Olga G. Chellis, Mae Tate Jones, Thora L. Dudley, Mary O. Hope, and…
First pledge line of Eta Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (1966), clockwise from center: Dorthy Sharpe, Bessie Ware, isabella McLeod, Mary DeChabert, Gladys Mapp, Barbara Vasquez, Carolyn Bowman, and Grace Wheeler