1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:04,352 --> 00:00:06,267 - ♪ SHOW ME WHERE MY LADIES AT ♪ 3 00:00:06,310 --> 00:00:07,572 ♪ GOVEMBER 4 00:00:07,616 --> 00:00:08,747 ♪ TELL 'EM WHERE MY LADIES AT 5 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 6 00:00:08,791 --> 00:00:10,140 ♪ GOVEMBER 7 00:00:10,184 --> 00:00:11,576 ♪ SHOW 'EM HOW THE LADIES WIN IT ♪ 8 00:00:11,620 --> 00:00:13,274 ♪ GOVEMBER 9 00:00:13,317 --> 00:00:15,711 ♪ SHOW 'EM WHO THE BOSS, SHOW 'EM WHO THE BOSS ♪ 10 00:00:15,754 --> 00:00:18,801 ♪ STRONG AND FIERCE, WONDERFUL ♪ 11 00:00:18,844 --> 00:00:21,456 ♪ TALKIN' LIKE A BOSS, TALKIN' LIKE A BOSS ♪ 12 00:00:21,499 --> 00:00:24,633 ♪ WALKIN' THIS PLACE WITH MY HIGH HEELS ON ♪ 13 00:00:24,676 --> 00:00:27,070 ♪ STRUTTIN' LIKE A BOSS, STRUTTIN' LIKE A BOSS ♪ 14 00:00:27,114 --> 00:00:30,247 ♪ [UNINTELLIGIBLE] 15 00:00:30,291 --> 00:00:32,858 ♪ TALKIN' TO THE BOSS, TALKIN' TO THE BOSS ♪ 16 00:00:32,902 --> 00:00:36,036 ♪ RUNNIN' THIS PLACE, RUNNIN' THIS TOWN ♪ 17 00:00:36,079 --> 00:00:39,082 ♪ WORKIN' LIKE A BOSS, WORKIN' LIKE A BOSS ♪ 18 00:00:39,126 --> 00:00:41,737 ♪ INDEPENDENT NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD ♪ 19 00:00:41,780 --> 00:00:44,653 ♪ CONFIDENT NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD ♪ 20 00:00:44,696 --> 00:00:47,438 ♪ FROM THE BOARDROOM DOWN TO THE HOOD ♪ 21 00:00:47,482 --> 00:00:50,093 ♪ ALL MY LADIES NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD ♪ 22 00:00:50,137 --> 00:00:51,529 ♪ SHOW ME WHERE MY LADIES AT 23 00:00:51,573 --> 00:00:52,835 ♪ GOVEMBER 24 00:00:52,878 --> 00:00:54,315 ♪ TELL 'EM WHERE MY LADIES AT 25 00:00:54,358 --> 00:00:55,751 ♪ GOVEMBER 26 00:00:55,794 --> 00:00:57,274 ♪ SHOW 'EM HOW THE LADIES WIN IT ♪ 27 00:00:57,318 --> 00:00:59,015 ♪ GOVEMBER 28 00:00:59,059 --> 00:01:01,365 ♪ SHOW 'EM WHO THE BOSS, SHOW 'EM WHO THE BOSS ♪ 29 00:01:01,409 --> 00:01:03,324 ♪ 30 00:01:03,367 --> 00:01:04,499 ♪ GO GET 'EM, GIRL ♪♪ 31 00:01:08,590 --> 00:01:12,985 - I HAD BEEN INFLUENCED TO A GREAT DEAL BY ONE OF MY AUNTS, 32 00:01:13,029 --> 00:01:17,512 CHRISTINE SIMMONS, WHO ATTENDED HOWARD UNIVERSITY IN THE '50S 33 00:01:17,555 --> 00:01:19,731 AND JOINED ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY. 34 00:01:21,081 --> 00:01:23,126 WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER, 35 00:01:23,170 --> 00:01:26,912 SHE WAS BASILEUS OF A CHAPTER IN OAKLAND. 36 00:01:26,956 --> 00:01:30,394 THERE WAS NO QUESTION THAT I WAS GOING TO HOWARD UNIVERSITY 37 00:01:30,438 --> 00:01:34,703 AND I WOULD JOIN ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY, INCORPORATED. 38 00:01:34,746 --> 00:01:38,315 - ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA TOOK A STAND FOR WHAT WAS RIGHT: 39 00:01:38,359 --> 00:01:41,536 TO ELEVATE THE STATUS OF BLACK WOMEN. 40 00:01:41,579 --> 00:01:43,625 SO IT WAS THE RIGHT TIME AT THE RIGHT MOMENT 41 00:01:43,668 --> 00:01:45,409 TO DO THE RIGHT THING. 42 00:01:45,453 --> 00:01:48,934 - RASHAN: THESE WERE YOUNG WOMEN, 19, 18 YEARS OLD, 43 00:01:48,978 --> 00:01:52,112 WHO THOUGHT OF THIS IN 1908. 44 00:01:52,155 --> 00:01:54,201 CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT? 45 00:01:54,244 --> 00:02:00,468 - ♪ 46 00:02:00,511 --> 00:02:02,252 - PHYLICIA: HISTORY RARELY ADDRESSES 47 00:02:02,296 --> 00:02:07,953 THE AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN'S PRESENCE OR CONTRIBUTIONS. 48 00:02:07,997 --> 00:02:10,869 SHE SHAPED AND BUILT AMERICA, 49 00:02:10,913 --> 00:02:14,699 DESPITE FACING FORMIDABLE AND LEGAL OBSTACLES TO FREEDOM 50 00:02:14,743 --> 00:02:19,356 AND OWNERSHIP OF HER OWN BODY, LIFE, AND IDENTITY. 51 00:02:22,142 --> 00:02:24,405 AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN JOINED TOGETHER 52 00:02:24,448 --> 00:02:27,756 AND STRATEGIZED HOW TO RESIST OPPRESSION. 53 00:02:29,888 --> 00:02:32,456 IN THE SPAN OF SIX GENERATIONS, 54 00:02:32,500 --> 00:02:35,894 AMERICA'S FIRST GREEK LETTER ORGANIZATION FOR BLACK WOMEN, 55 00:02:35,938 --> 00:02:39,246 ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY, INCORPORATED, 56 00:02:39,289 --> 00:02:42,510 CAME INTO EXISTENCE AND CREATED A SISTERHOOD 57 00:02:42,553 --> 00:02:44,947 THAT CONTINUES TO IMPACT AMERICA. 58 00:02:44,990 --> 00:02:50,996 - ♪ 59 00:02:52,563 --> 00:02:57,916 - ♪ 60 00:02:57,960 --> 00:02:59,875 - I AM THE GREAT-GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER 61 00:02:59,918 --> 00:03:03,487 OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY, INCORPORATED'S FOUNDER, 62 00:03:03,531 --> 00:03:06,229 ETHEL HEDGEMAN LYLE. 63 00:03:06,273 --> 00:03:10,494 THESE ARE MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDMOTHER'S PEARLS. 64 00:03:10,538 --> 00:03:14,194 I WEAR THEM WITH PRIDE AND GRATITUDE. 65 00:03:14,237 --> 00:03:16,326 TO BE ABLE TO SIT HERE 66 00:03:16,370 --> 00:03:22,114 WITH PEARLS THAT ARE OVER A CENTURY YEARS OLD, 67 00:03:22,158 --> 00:03:26,031 THE SIGNIFICANCE IS HEAVY, BUT HEAVY IN A GOOD WAY. 68 00:03:28,077 --> 00:03:31,646 - PHYLICIA: ETHEL HEDGEMAN LYLE IS BORN IN 1887. 69 00:03:31,689 --> 00:03:34,736 DURING THIS ERA, THE UNITED STATES GRAPPLES WITH 70 00:03:34,779 --> 00:03:38,218 THE LEGAL STATUS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS. 71 00:03:38,261 --> 00:03:39,567 - YOU HAVE THE JIM CROW LAWS. 72 00:03:39,610 --> 00:03:41,873 YOU HAVE THE DE FACTO SEGREGATION. 73 00:03:41,917 --> 00:03:44,267 YOU HAVE WHITES WHO WERE REALLY FIGHTING AGAINST 74 00:03:44,311 --> 00:03:48,837 THE EMANCIPATION OF FORMERLY ENSLAVED PEOPLE. 75 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:50,273 - THERE WERE CAMPAIGNS OF VIOLENCE 76 00:03:50,317 --> 00:03:53,015 THAT WOULD BE CARRIED OUT. 77 00:03:53,058 --> 00:03:56,584 - PHYLICIA: MOBS IN ALL PARTS OF THE SOUTH BURNED SCHOOLS, 78 00:03:56,627 --> 00:03:59,239 FLOGGED TEACHERS, OR DRIVE MANY OF THEM AWAY. 79 00:04:01,110 --> 00:04:02,807 OTHERS, THEY MURDER. 80 00:04:04,896 --> 00:04:07,203 - [GUNSHOT] 81 00:04:07,247 --> 00:04:09,988 - DR. THOMPSON: AND YET, AFRICAN AMERICANS DID A LOT 82 00:04:10,032 --> 00:04:11,947 WITH THE VERY LITTLE THEY WERE GIVEN. 83 00:04:11,990 --> 00:04:17,909 - ♪ 84 00:04:19,607 --> 00:04:22,087 - SECRETARY BUNCH: FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM DIDN'T END 85 00:04:22,131 --> 00:04:25,482 WHEN THE WAR ENDED IN 1865. 86 00:04:25,526 --> 00:04:30,574 THERE WAS A GREAT DESIRE FROM SOME OF THE EX-SOLDIERS TO GIVE 87 00:04:30,618 --> 00:04:36,363 OUR COMMUNITY THE OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY BE EDUCATED. 88 00:04:36,406 --> 00:04:40,541 - JUNIPER HUBBARD IS ETHEL'S GRANDFATHER. 89 00:04:40,584 --> 00:04:44,327 HE WAS AN ENSLAVED MAN THAT FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR. 90 00:04:44,371 --> 00:04:47,287 JUNIPER HUBBARD TOOK HIS VETERAN PAY 91 00:04:47,330 --> 00:04:49,158 AND HE USED THAT MONEY WITH HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS 92 00:04:49,201 --> 00:04:52,248 TO START LINCOLN UNIVERSITY IN MISSOURI. 93 00:04:55,469 --> 00:04:58,298 - I COULD IMAGINE HOW SHE WAS SHAPED BY STORIES 94 00:04:58,341 --> 00:05:03,346 BY HER GRANDFATHER ABOUT THE COMMITMENT TO EDUCATION. 95 00:05:03,390 --> 00:05:06,697 - ♪ MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, LOUIS ♪ 96 00:05:06,741 --> 00:05:09,787 ♪ MEET ME AT THE FAIR 97 00:05:09,831 --> 00:05:12,224 - PHYLICIA: DURING ETHEL'S SENIOR YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL, 98 00:05:12,268 --> 00:05:16,707 WORLD'S FAIR MANIA SWEEPED ST. LOUIS. 99 00:05:16,751 --> 00:05:20,581 - KRISTI: IN 1904, THE OLYMPICS WAS HELD IN ST. LOUIS. 100 00:05:20,624 --> 00:05:24,802 IT'S REALLY CRAZY THAT AT THAT OLYMPICS, 101 00:05:24,846 --> 00:05:27,109 THEY ACTUALLY HAD HUMAN ZOOS. 102 00:05:27,152 --> 00:05:29,938 - [INDISTINCT CHATTER] 103 00:05:29,981 --> 00:05:35,944 - ♪ 104 00:05:40,252 --> 00:05:41,950 - DR. HARRIS: CAN YOU IMAGINE THE MESSAGES 105 00:05:41,993 --> 00:05:46,215 THAT SHE HAD TO HAVE INTERNALIZED? 106 00:05:46,258 --> 00:05:49,000 THERE'S THAT DICHOTOMY WHERE YOU MAY HAVE HAD 107 00:05:49,044 --> 00:05:51,960 A STRONG SENSE OF WHO YOU WERE. 108 00:05:52,003 --> 00:05:53,831 YOU EXISTED IN A COMMUNITY 109 00:05:53,875 --> 00:05:57,618 THAT DID NOT VALUE WHO YOU WERE AT YOUR VERY CORE. 110 00:05:57,661 --> 00:06:01,317 - WITH ETHEL HEDGEMAN LYLE BEING CLOSE TO THAT ATMOSPHERE, 111 00:06:01,361 --> 00:06:04,799 IT WAS MOTIVATION TO CHANGE THINGS. 112 00:06:04,842 --> 00:06:08,411 - [TRAIN CHUGGING] 113 00:06:08,455 --> 00:06:11,545 - PHYLICIA: AT 17, WITH A SCHOLARSHIP IN HAND, 114 00:06:11,588 --> 00:06:13,895 ETHEL TRAVELED SOLO TO WASHINGTON, DC, 115 00:06:13,938 --> 00:06:16,201 TO ENROLL AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY. 116 00:06:19,117 --> 00:06:22,599 - VP HARRIS: AT THAT TIME, THE BLACK POPULATION IN AMERICA WAS 117 00:06:22,643 --> 00:06:26,255 JUST IN EXCESS OF 8 MILLION PEOPLE. 118 00:06:26,298 --> 00:06:31,129 THERE WERE ABOUT 1,000 BLACK AMERICANS WHO WERE IN COLLEGE. 119 00:06:31,173 --> 00:06:36,874 OF THAT NUMBER, A FAR FEWER WERE YOUNG BLACK WOMEN. 120 00:06:36,918 --> 00:06:38,528 - PHYLICIA: ETHEL IMMERSES HERSELF 121 00:06:38,572 --> 00:06:41,836 IN ALL THAT HOWARD UNIVERSITY HAS TO OFFER HER. 122 00:06:41,879 --> 00:06:46,667 BUT SHE NOTES MANY CLUBS EXCLUDE WOMEN. 123 00:06:46,710 --> 00:06:48,669 - SO SHE'S DISENFRANCHISED 'CAUSE SHE'S A WOMAN. 124 00:06:48,712 --> 00:06:51,411 SHE'S DISENFRANCHISED BECAUSE SHE'S AFRICAN AMERICAN. 125 00:06:51,454 --> 00:06:57,373 BLACK WOMEN NEED SPACES THAT ARE NOT INFRINGED UPON BY MEN. 126 00:06:57,417 --> 00:07:00,202 - PHYLICIA: ETHEL HEDGEMAN FINDS A MENTOR IN ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR 127 00:07:00,245 --> 00:07:02,857 ETHEL TREMAINE ROBINSON. 128 00:07:02,900 --> 00:07:06,121 - ANGELA: ETHEL HEDGEMAN LYLE WAS ABLE TO GO TO SOMEONE 129 00:07:06,164 --> 00:07:10,517 THAT LOOKED LIKE HER, THOUGHT LIKE HER, AND WENT TO BROWN. 130 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:12,301 MIND BLOWN! 131 00:07:12,344 --> 00:07:15,043 - ETHEL ROBINSON WAS THE FIRST FEMALE NEGRO GRADUATE 132 00:07:15,086 --> 00:07:18,046 OF BROWN UNIVERSITY. 133 00:07:18,089 --> 00:07:21,919 AT BROWN, SHE HAD OBSERVED THE SORORITIES. 134 00:07:21,963 --> 00:07:24,661 SHE WASN'T ABLE TO BE A MEMBER BECAUSE OF HER RACE. 135 00:07:24,705 --> 00:07:28,665 BUT SHE WAS VERY IMPRESSED BY THEM. 136 00:07:28,709 --> 00:07:32,495 ETHEL HEDGEMAN APPROACHED SOME OF HER FRIENDS ON CAMPUS 137 00:07:32,539 --> 00:07:36,673 AND BEGAN HAVING MEETINGS TO TALK ABOUT FORMING A SORORITY. 138 00:07:36,717 --> 00:07:41,112 - AT THAT AGE, I MEAN, WHAT WAS I DOING? 139 00:07:41,156 --> 00:07:44,986 I'M THINKING ABOUT HOW CAN I LIVE IN THE DORM, 140 00:07:45,029 --> 00:07:48,772 GO OUT TO THE PARTIES, AND NOT GO TO CLASS? 141 00:07:48,816 --> 00:07:50,557 AND THEN I WAS LIKE, OKAY, I CAN'T DO THAT. 142 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,429 BUT ETHEL HEDGEMAN LYLE IS THINKING, 143 00:07:53,473 --> 00:07:58,042 HOW CAN I ENRICH COLLEGE EXPERIENCE 144 00:07:58,086 --> 00:08:00,001 FOR WOMEN? 145 00:08:00,044 --> 00:08:03,526 - PHYLICIA: ETHEL ASSEMBLES A GROUP OF LIKE-MINDED WOMEN. 146 00:08:03,570 --> 00:08:05,833 THE GROUP INCLUDES SIX SENIORS-- 147 00:08:05,876 --> 00:08:07,791 THE BURKE SISTERS, BEULAH AND LILLIE, 148 00:08:07,835 --> 00:08:10,402 BOTH GREEK AND LATIN SCHOLARS, 149 00:08:10,446 --> 00:08:13,710 MARGARET FLAGG, A WELL-HEELED SOCIALITE, 150 00:08:13,754 --> 00:08:16,539 MARJORIE HILL, A LOGISTICS GURU, 151 00:08:16,583 --> 00:08:18,976 LUCY DIGGS SLOWE, A STAR ATHLETE 152 00:08:19,020 --> 00:08:21,849 AND HIGHEST-RANKING SENIOR CLASSMAN, 153 00:08:21,892 --> 00:08:25,243 MARIE WOOLFOLK TAYLOR, A REFINED LADY-- 154 00:08:25,287 --> 00:08:27,202 AND TWO JUNIORS-- 155 00:08:27,245 --> 00:08:30,161 ANNA EASTER BROWN, AN ACCOMPLISHED WRITER 156 00:08:30,205 --> 00:08:33,513 AND LAVINIA NORMAN, THE DIPLOMAT. 157 00:08:33,556 --> 00:08:36,994 ETHEL EXPLAINS TO HER CLASSMATES, "WE HAVE A TORCH. 158 00:08:37,038 --> 00:08:40,650 AND WE SHOULD USE IT TO LIGHTEN EVERYONE ELSE'S DARKNESS." 159 00:08:43,392 --> 00:08:46,395 - THE FOUNDER I AM MOST LIKE IS ETHEL HEDGEMAN LYLE. 160 00:08:46,438 --> 00:08:48,571 IMAGINE THE LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE 161 00:08:48,615 --> 00:08:52,270 TO EVEN THINK OF SOMETHING SO GRAND. 162 00:08:52,314 --> 00:08:56,579 - I REALLY ALIGN WITH MARGARET FLAGG HOLMES. 163 00:08:56,623 --> 00:08:59,626 I LIKE THE WAY SHE COMBINED HER SPIRITUAL SIDE 164 00:08:59,669 --> 00:09:01,453 WITH HER BUSINESS SIDE. 165 00:09:01,497 --> 00:09:04,282 HER FATHER WAS A PREACHER. SHE WENT TO CHURCH EVERY SUNDAY. 166 00:09:04,326 --> 00:09:05,762 THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS AT MY HOUSE. 167 00:09:05,806 --> 00:09:08,417 - I AM MOST LIKE, UM, ANNA EASTER BROWN. 168 00:09:08,460 --> 00:09:09,810 WE'RE BOTH FROM NEW JERSEY. 169 00:09:09,853 --> 00:09:11,942 SHE WORKED IN THE LIBRARY AT HOWARD. 170 00:09:11,986 --> 00:09:13,814 I WORKED IN THE LIBRARY AT HOWARD, YES. 171 00:09:13,857 --> 00:09:16,381 I THINK WE PROBABLY WOULD'VE GOT ALONG GREAT. 172 00:09:16,425 --> 00:09:18,166 - MARIE WOOLFOLK TAYLOR. 173 00:09:18,209 --> 00:09:21,082 SHE WAS THE ONE THAT ETHEL HEDGEMAN LYLE TOOK WITH HER 174 00:09:21,125 --> 00:09:25,608 TO CONVINCE ADMINISTRATORS TO ALLOW THEM TO FORM THE SORORITY. 175 00:09:25,652 --> 00:09:29,177 SO I MAY NOT BE THE ONE THAT COMES UP WITH THE GREAT IDEA, 176 00:09:29,220 --> 00:09:31,614 BUT IF YOU SELL ME ON THE IDEA, I'M RIGHT THERE. 177 00:09:33,181 --> 00:09:34,791 - PHYLICIA: ETHEL AND HER CLASSMATES 178 00:09:34,835 --> 00:09:38,273 WORK IN SECRET IN HER DORM ROOM AFTER LIGHTS OUT 179 00:09:38,316 --> 00:09:40,580 TO HASH OUT THEIR IDEAS. 180 00:09:43,626 --> 00:09:48,065 - FOR THEM TO BE ACADEMICALLY INCLINED AND STILL HAVE THIS 181 00:09:48,109 --> 00:09:51,765 DESIRE TO CREATE SOMETHING THAT WASN'T PART OF THEIR CURRICULUM, 182 00:09:51,808 --> 00:09:53,418 ALL THE ODDS WERE AGAINST THEM. 183 00:09:53,462 --> 00:09:55,595 BUT THEY STILL TOOK IT UPON THEMSELVES TO DO THAT. 184 00:09:57,814 --> 00:09:59,511 - DR. BURTON: ETHEL HEDGEMAN LYLE, 185 00:09:59,555 --> 00:10:01,470 SHE HAS TO GO TO BATTLE AGAINST THE PRESIDENT, 186 00:10:01,513 --> 00:10:02,950 WHO HAD A VERY SPECIFIC IDEA 187 00:10:02,993 --> 00:10:05,779 OF WHAT BLACK PEOPLE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE. 188 00:10:05,822 --> 00:10:08,216 SHE HAS TO PROVE TO HIM 189 00:10:08,259 --> 00:10:13,525 THAT OUR LIVES ARE IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO ORGANIZE. 190 00:10:13,569 --> 00:10:16,050 - PHYLICIA: ETHEL AND MARIE WOOLFOLK TAYLOR 191 00:10:16,093 --> 00:10:18,008 PRESENT THEIR PLANS TO PRESIDENT THIRKIELD 192 00:10:18,052 --> 00:10:20,707 AND HIS ALL-MALE COMMITTEE. 193 00:10:20,750 --> 00:10:24,232 ETHEL PROFESSES, "THIS IS A RESPONSE TO THE GREAT NEED OF 194 00:10:24,275 --> 00:10:27,496 "THE NEGRO PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WOMEN AND GIRLS, 195 00:10:27,539 --> 00:10:31,500 AND IS A GRAND LEVER WITH WHICH TO RAISE THE STAR OF WOMEN." 196 00:10:33,937 --> 00:10:38,681 THE COMMITTEE GRANTS UNANIMOUS APPROVAL. 197 00:10:38,725 --> 00:10:42,990 - OUR FOUNDERS WERE ACUTELY AWARE THERE NEEDED TO BE 198 00:10:43,033 --> 00:10:46,558 A FORMAL SISTERHOOD TO SUPPORT THOSE 199 00:10:46,602 --> 00:10:50,780 WHO HAD ENDURED INCREDIBLE OBSTACLES 200 00:10:50,824 --> 00:10:54,044 TO BE YOUNG BLACK WOMEN IN COLLEGE IN AMERICA. 201 00:10:54,088 --> 00:10:56,177 - PICTURE THE BACKDROP OF THAT. 202 00:10:56,220 --> 00:10:57,657 FORTY YEARS PAST SLAVERY. 203 00:10:57,700 --> 00:11:00,398 NOT ONLY THAT, 12 YEARS EARLIER, 204 00:11:00,442 --> 00:11:02,749 THEY HAD JUST DECLARED SEPARATE BUT EQUAL 205 00:11:02,792 --> 00:11:05,403 TO BE THE LAW OF THE LAND. 206 00:11:05,447 --> 00:11:08,145 - THEY HAD THE GUMPTION-- [LAUGHS] 207 00:11:08,189 --> 00:11:12,106 --TO SAY, I HAVE A PURPOSE WITH THIS EDUCATION. 208 00:11:12,149 --> 00:11:13,977 THEY HAD ALREADY STAKED THE CLAIM THAT THEY WERE GOING TO 209 00:11:14,021 --> 00:11:15,457 MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD. 210 00:11:15,500 --> 00:11:18,373 - ♪ 211 00:11:18,416 --> 00:11:22,769 - PHYLICIA: ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1908... 212 00:11:22,812 --> 00:11:26,424 IN THE PARLOR OF MINER HALL, ETHEL HEDGEMAN 213 00:11:26,468 --> 00:11:30,124 AND HER EIGHT CO-FOUNDERS HOLD THE INAUGURAL MEETING 214 00:11:30,167 --> 00:11:33,823 OF THE FIRST BLACK GREEK LETTER SORORITY. 215 00:11:33,867 --> 00:11:35,738 BY THE THIRD MEETING, 216 00:11:35,782 --> 00:11:38,654 BEULAH BURKE CRAFTED THE SORORITY MOTTO 217 00:11:38,698 --> 00:11:40,874 "BY CULTURE AND BY MERIT" 218 00:11:40,917 --> 00:11:44,355 BASED ON AKA'S MEANING IN GREEK. 219 00:11:44,399 --> 00:11:48,142 THE METICULOUS LUCY DIGGS SLOWE DRAFTS THE SORORITY'S 220 00:11:48,185 --> 00:11:51,275 CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS. 221 00:11:51,319 --> 00:11:55,279 THE GIRLS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVE LUCY AS PRESIDENT 222 00:11:55,323 --> 00:11:57,586 AND THE SORORITY'S DISTINCTIVE COLORS, 223 00:11:57,629 --> 00:11:59,675 SALMON PINK AND APPLE GREEN. 224 00:12:01,982 --> 00:12:06,029 WITH THAT, ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA IS ESTABLISHED 225 00:12:06,073 --> 00:12:08,075 AND HISTORY IS MADE. 226 00:12:10,425 --> 00:12:14,472 - NAMING THE ORGANIZATION AND SELECTING COLORS, 227 00:12:14,516 --> 00:12:17,432 ALL OF THOSE THINGS SAY WE HAVE AN IDENTITY. 228 00:12:17,475 --> 00:12:19,260 - ♪ WE LOVE AKA 229 00:12:19,303 --> 00:12:22,263 - A'LELIA: WE WANT TO BE SEEN. 230 00:12:22,306 --> 00:12:24,482 AND WE WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHO WE ARE. 231 00:12:24,526 --> 00:12:27,790 - ♪ AND WE WILL BE TRUE TO YOU ♪ 232 00:12:27,834 --> 00:12:30,924 - "FORMING AN ORGANIZATION FOR THE PURPOSE OF STUDYING 233 00:12:30,967 --> 00:12:33,274 "AND SOLVING SUCH PROBLEMS, 234 00:12:33,317 --> 00:12:36,016 "THEREFORE ORGANIZE THIS SORORITY 235 00:12:36,059 --> 00:12:39,454 "IN ORDER TO CULTIVATE AND TO ENCOURAGE 236 00:12:39,497 --> 00:12:42,936 "HIGH SCHOLASTIC AND ETHICAL STANDARDS 237 00:12:42,979 --> 00:12:46,374 TO IMPROVE THE SOCIAL STATURE OF THE RACE." 238 00:12:46,417 --> 00:12:49,029 WOW. 239 00:12:49,072 --> 00:12:51,771 THAT OUR LIVES MATTER. MM. 240 00:12:54,512 --> 00:12:57,254 - PHYLICIA: THE NEWLY MINTED SORORITY FOCUSES ON FINDING 241 00:12:57,298 --> 00:13:02,738 WOMEN IN THEIR LIKENESS TO CARRY ON THE SISTERHOOD. 242 00:13:02,782 --> 00:13:05,393 HONOR STUDENTS IN THE CLASS OF 1910 243 00:13:05,436 --> 00:13:07,874 RECEIVE INVITATIONS TO JOIN. 244 00:13:07,917 --> 00:13:12,182 JOANNA BARRY, HARRIET TERRY, ETHEL JONES, 245 00:13:12,226 --> 00:13:15,664 SARAH MERIWETHER, ALICE MURRAY, 246 00:13:15,707 --> 00:13:18,493 CARRIE SNOWDEN, AND NORMA BOYD. 247 00:13:19,189 --> 00:13:21,017 - NORMA: I WAS IN SOPHOMORE CLASS. 248 00:13:21,061 --> 00:13:25,413 THEY INVITED SOME OF US TO COME IN THE SORORITY TO KEEP IT GOING. 249 00:13:25,456 --> 00:13:28,329 I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY PICKED US OUT. BUT THEY PICKED US OUT. 250 00:13:28,372 --> 00:13:30,331 AND WE WERE IN THERE. 251 00:13:32,376 --> 00:13:36,163 MY MOTHER HAD VERY HIGH STANDARDS. 252 00:13:36,206 --> 00:13:37,991 SHE ALWAYS TOLD US 253 00:13:38,034 --> 00:13:41,429 THAT NOBODY IN ALL THE WORLD WAS ANY BETTER THAN WE WERE. 254 00:13:42,691 --> 00:13:45,215 PRESIDENT GEORGE COOK SAID TO MY FATHER, 255 00:13:45,259 --> 00:13:47,870 "SHE KNOWS EVERYBODY ON THE CAMPUS." 256 00:13:47,914 --> 00:13:50,090 I WAS OUTGOING. I ALWAYS HAVE BEEN. 257 00:13:54,181 --> 00:13:57,358 - PHYLICIA: THE 1908 GRADUATING CLASS OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY 258 00:13:57,401 --> 00:14:01,797 INCLUDES, FOR THE FIRST TIME, MEMBERS OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA. 259 00:14:05,801 --> 00:14:09,326 BEULAH BURKE HEADED TO KANSAS CITY TO TEACH. 260 00:14:09,370 --> 00:14:14,505 HER SISTER, LILLIE, ACCEPTS A TEACHING POSITION IN PENNSYLVANIA. 261 00:14:14,549 --> 00:14:19,684 MARIE WOOLFOLK TAYLOR BEGINS GRADUATE STUDY IN SOCIAL WORK. 262 00:14:19,728 --> 00:14:23,906 MARJORIE HILL TEACHES POLITICAL SCIENCE AT MORGAN COLLEGE. 263 00:14:23,950 --> 00:14:27,431 LUCY DIGGS SLOWE, THE CLASS VALEDICTORIAN, 264 00:14:27,475 --> 00:14:29,825 RETURNS TO BALTIMORE TO TEACH, 265 00:14:29,869 --> 00:14:33,655 AND SUBSEQUENTLY WINS THE AMERICAN TENNIS ASSOCIATION'S 266 00:14:33,698 --> 00:14:35,657 FIRST TOURNAMENT, 267 00:14:35,700 --> 00:14:38,007 BECOMING THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN 268 00:14:38,051 --> 00:14:41,358 TO WIN A MAJOR SPORTS TITLE. 269 00:14:41,402 --> 00:14:44,361 - THESE BLACK COLLEGE WOMEN WERE REALLY BRAVE 270 00:14:44,405 --> 00:14:48,235 TO MAKE INDEPENDENT LIVES FOR THEMSELVES. 271 00:14:48,278 --> 00:14:52,543 - ♪ 272 00:14:52,587 --> 00:14:54,981 - SECRETARY BUNCH: ALL THESE WOMEN ARE PIONEERING IN 273 00:14:55,024 --> 00:14:58,636 RECOGNIZING THAT WOMEN HAVE TO REALLY USE THEIR TALENT, 274 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:02,466 USE THEIR EDUCATION, TO MAKE A COUNTRY BETTER. 275 00:15:02,510 --> 00:15:04,686 - PHYLICIA: THE REMAINING ORIGINAL FOUNDERS GRADUATE 276 00:15:04,729 --> 00:15:06,122 AND ARE IN THE VANGUARD 277 00:15:06,166 --> 00:15:09,082 OF A BURGEONING GENERATION OF CAREER WOMEN. 278 00:15:09,125 --> 00:15:10,518 ETHEL HEADS TO OKLAHOMA 279 00:15:10,561 --> 00:15:13,651 TO TRAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS. 280 00:15:13,695 --> 00:15:18,004 NOW A SENIOR, NORMA BOYD ASSUMES THE PRESIDENCY OF THE SORORITY, 281 00:15:18,047 --> 00:15:21,050 WHICH GROWS IN POPULARITY AND PROMINENCE. 282 00:15:21,790 --> 00:15:24,967 - FORTUNATELY FOR US, 283 00:15:25,011 --> 00:15:29,798 THERE WAS A GIRL ON THE CAMPUS WHO HAD JOINED THE SORORITY 284 00:15:29,841 --> 00:15:32,932 WHO WAS TAKING THESE CLASSES IN THE EVENING 285 00:15:32,975 --> 00:15:35,499 AND WAS ALREADY TEACHING SCHOOL. 286 00:15:35,543 --> 00:15:40,548 A VERY BRILLIANT PERSON, NELLIE QUANDER. 287 00:15:40,591 --> 00:15:43,333 - NELLIE QUANDER HAS A VERY INTERESTING ANCESTRY. 288 00:15:43,377 --> 00:15:46,641 SHE IS DESCENDED FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON'S FAMILY 289 00:15:46,684 --> 00:15:49,035 ON BOTH OF SIDES OF THE FAMILY. 290 00:15:49,078 --> 00:15:51,428 SO NELLIE QUANDER HAS GEORGE WASHINGTON'S BLOOD 291 00:15:51,472 --> 00:15:53,822 RUNNING IN HER VEINS. 292 00:15:53,865 --> 00:15:54,954 - PHYLICIA: WHILE WORKING FULL TIME 293 00:15:54,997 --> 00:15:56,956 AND MAINTAINING AN A AVERAGE, 294 00:15:56,999 --> 00:15:58,653 NELLIE JUGGLES TWO TERMS 295 00:15:58,696 --> 00:16:02,091 AS THE SORORITY'S PRESIDENT AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY. 296 00:16:02,135 --> 00:16:07,314 SHE EMERGES AS A REVERED SORORITY AND CAMPUS LEADER. 297 00:16:07,357 --> 00:16:10,012 - WE AS QUANDERS, WE HAVE A CERTAIN STANDARD. 298 00:16:10,056 --> 00:16:11,971 AND NELLIE QUANDER WAS A STALWART ON THAT. 299 00:16:12,014 --> 00:16:14,103 SHE DIDN'T PLAY AROUND. 300 00:16:14,147 --> 00:16:15,452 SHE WAS SO FOCUSED. 301 00:16:16,366 --> 00:16:18,716 - BEING ASSOCIATED WITH NELLIE QUANDER WAS, 302 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:23,852 FOR ME, JUST LIKE TAKING A POST-GRADUATE COURSE IN 303 00:16:23,895 --> 00:16:26,289 POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE. 304 00:16:26,333 --> 00:16:29,771 NELLIE QUANDER WAS A GENIUS. 305 00:16:29,814 --> 00:16:33,079 - PHYLICIA: NELLIE QUANDER GRADUATES MAGNA CUM LAUDE 306 00:16:33,122 --> 00:16:35,646 AND REMAINS DEEPLY DEVOTED TO THE SORORITY. 307 00:16:37,909 --> 00:16:41,826 - ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA'S FACING A WORLD IN WHICH THERE WAS 308 00:16:41,870 --> 00:16:44,960 SEGREGATION AND INTIMIDATION LAWS. 309 00:16:45,004 --> 00:16:50,183 - ♪ 310 00:16:50,226 --> 00:16:51,749 - THE 1910S PROVED TO BE 311 00:16:51,793 --> 00:16:55,710 A VERY DIFFICULT TIME RACIALLY FOR OUR PEOPLE. 312 00:16:55,753 --> 00:16:56,972 - DR. THOMPSON: AFRICAN AMERICANS 313 00:16:57,016 --> 00:16:58,495 WANTED TO FORCE THE CONSTITUTION 314 00:16:58,539 --> 00:17:01,585 TO LIVE UP TO ITS PROMISE. 315 00:17:01,629 --> 00:17:03,239 - JUDGE QUANDER: THERE WERE THOSE IN THE SORORITY 316 00:17:03,283 --> 00:17:06,112 WHO FELT IT SHOULD BE SOMETHING MORE ACTIVIST. 317 00:17:06,155 --> 00:17:09,724 AND THE SALMON PINK AND APPLE BLOSSOM GREEN 318 00:17:09,767 --> 00:17:12,466 JUST DIDN'T FIT THE MM OF THE BLOOD 319 00:17:12,509 --> 00:17:16,774 THAT MIGHT HAVE TO BE SHED IN THE EFFORT. 320 00:17:16,818 --> 00:17:19,560 - PHYLICIA: THE NEWLY ELECTED AKA OFFICERS HAVE 321 00:17:19,603 --> 00:17:22,084 NO RELATIONSHIPS WITH ETHEL HEDGEMAN LYLE 322 00:17:22,128 --> 00:17:25,174 OR ANY OF THE OTHER FOUNDERS. 323 00:17:25,218 --> 00:17:29,265 - THERE WERE QUESTIONS WITH SOME OF THE NEW MEMBERS 324 00:17:29,309 --> 00:17:32,268 ON WHAT THE ORGANIZATION WAS GONNA STAND FOR 325 00:17:32,312 --> 00:17:35,793 AND WHAT DIRECTION THE ORGANIZATION WAS GOING. 326 00:17:35,837 --> 00:17:37,491 - PHYLICIA: ON A BRISK FALL DAY, 327 00:17:37,534 --> 00:17:39,667 NELLIE QUANDER HEADS TO HER ALMA MATER 328 00:17:39,710 --> 00:17:43,714 EXCITED TO GREET THE NEW SORORITY OFFICERS. 329 00:17:43,758 --> 00:17:47,414 - NELLIE MAE QUANDER CAME TO VISIT AND SAY, "HEY, LIKE, 330 00:17:47,457 --> 00:17:49,242 WHAT ARE YOU ALL DOING?" 331 00:17:49,285 --> 00:17:50,678 AND SAY, "OH, WELL, WE WANNA CHANGE THE SORORITY'S NAMES, 332 00:17:50,721 --> 00:17:52,332 "MOTTO, AND COLORS. 333 00:17:52,375 --> 00:17:55,509 WE WANNA CHANGE EVERYTHING. WHAT DO YOU THINK?" 334 00:17:55,552 --> 00:17:59,382 AND I'M SURE SHE WAS LIKE, "YOU WANT--YOU WANT TO DO WHAT?" 335 00:18:00,166 --> 00:18:02,603 - SOME OF THE GIRLS WHO WERE IN IT THEN 336 00:18:02,646 --> 00:18:04,996 DIDN'T LIKE THE COLORS 337 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:08,957 AND THEY DIDN'T LIKE THE NAME. 338 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,741 IT WASN'T GREEK ENOUGH. 339 00:18:10,785 --> 00:18:12,395 IT WASN'T GREEK ENOUGH. 340 00:18:12,439 --> 00:18:15,224 - "ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA" WHEN SPOKEN IS GREEK. 341 00:18:15,268 --> 00:18:17,400 BUT LOOKED AT, IT'S AKA. 342 00:18:17,444 --> 00:18:20,969 IT DOESN'T CONVEY THE GREEKNESS. 343 00:18:21,012 --> 00:18:24,190 NELLIE QUANDER WAS TRYING TO ACCOMMODATE THEIR POINTS OF VIEW 344 00:18:24,233 --> 00:18:27,628 TO BE MORE OPEN. LET'S SEE HOW WE CAN COMPROMISE. 345 00:18:27,671 --> 00:18:30,761 BUT THE IDEA OF CHANGING THE NAMES AND CHANGING THE COLORS 346 00:18:30,805 --> 00:18:32,546 WAS NOT ON THE TABLE. 347 00:18:32,589 --> 00:18:37,420 - SO NELLIE SAYS, "OH NO, YOU COULDN'T CHANGE THE NAME 348 00:18:37,464 --> 00:18:42,556 WITHOUT FIRST CONSULTING THE PEOPLE WHO STARTED IT." 349 00:18:44,210 --> 00:18:47,169 - PHYLICIA: TWENTY-TWO WOMEN, INCLUDING THE CHAPTER PRESIDENT, 350 00:18:47,213 --> 00:18:49,258 THREATEN TO LEAVE ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA 351 00:18:49,302 --> 00:18:52,566 IF THEIR DEMANDS ARE NOT MET. 352 00:18:52,609 --> 00:18:55,221 - NELLIE QUANDER LISTENED. 353 00:18:55,264 --> 00:18:57,832 SAID, "OOH, WE HAVE A PROBLEM HERE." 354 00:18:57,875 --> 00:18:59,964 AND THEN SHE TOOK ACTION. 355 00:19:00,008 --> 00:19:01,705 - PHYLICIA: NELLIE QUANDER STANDS HER GROUND 356 00:19:01,749 --> 00:19:03,838 AND REFUSES TO ALLOW THE WOMEN 357 00:19:03,881 --> 00:19:08,277 TO DESTROY THE VISION OF THE FOUNDERS. 358 00:19:08,321 --> 00:19:13,152 - DR. JOHNSON: SHE SAID, "I MADE A VOW, AND I'M GOING TO KEEP IT. 359 00:19:13,195 --> 00:19:17,373 "I BELIEVE IN WHAT THIS ENTITY STANDS FOR. 360 00:19:17,417 --> 00:19:21,334 AND I'M NOT GOING TO LET IT GET STRIPPED AWAY." 361 00:19:23,858 --> 00:19:25,120 - JUDGE QUANDER: THEY LEFT 362 00:19:25,164 --> 00:19:27,905 AND FORMED THE OTHER ORGANIZATION. 363 00:19:27,949 --> 00:19:31,996 SO AKA WAS MOSTLY EMPTIED OUT. 364 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:33,955 - PHYLICIA: REALIZING THAT THE SORORITY'S EXISTENCE 365 00:19:33,998 --> 00:19:36,131 IS IN GRAVE DANGER, 366 00:19:36,175 --> 00:19:38,873 NELLIE QUANDER QUICKLY JOINS FORCES WITH NORMA BOYD 367 00:19:38,916 --> 00:19:42,964 TO PRESERVE ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA PERMANENTLY. 368 00:19:43,007 --> 00:19:44,618 - DR. GLOVER: NELLIE QUANDER WASN'T AN ATTORNEY. 369 00:19:44,661 --> 00:19:46,620 SHE WAS A SCHOOLTEACHER. 370 00:19:46,663 --> 00:19:48,926 SO NELLIE QUANDER SAID, "WE'RE GONNA DO WHATEVER IT TAKE 371 00:19:48,970 --> 00:19:51,494 "TO ENSURE THE PERPETUITY OF THIS ORGANIZATION, 372 00:19:51,538 --> 00:19:54,236 TO PROTECT THE MEMBERS OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA." 373 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:56,325 - I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO DO THAT NOW. 374 00:19:56,369 --> 00:19:57,718 I MEAN, OF COURSE WE CAN GOOGLE IT. 375 00:19:57,761 --> 00:19:59,328 BUT TO LITERALLY SAY, 376 00:19:59,372 --> 00:20:03,941 "HOW DO WE MAKE SURE WE SOLIDIFY 377 00:20:03,985 --> 00:20:06,553 "THE PERPETUITY OF OUR ORGANIZATION 378 00:20:06,596 --> 00:20:09,164 "SO THAT NO ONE CAN EVER CHANGE OUR COLORS, OUR MOTTO, 379 00:20:09,208 --> 00:20:12,428 ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE CREATED?" 380 00:20:12,472 --> 00:20:15,257 THEN SHE HAD TO SAY, "HOW DO I DO THAT? 381 00:20:15,301 --> 00:20:18,173 "ARE THEY EVEN GONNA LET ME IN TO ASK THE QUESTION? 382 00:20:18,217 --> 00:20:20,306 "ARE THEY EVEN GONNA LET ME FILE THE PAPERS? 383 00:20:20,349 --> 00:20:21,785 AND WILL THEY SAY YES?" 384 00:20:24,614 --> 00:20:27,487 - PHYLICIA: NELLIE REVISES THE SORORITY'S CONSTITUTION, 385 00:20:27,530 --> 00:20:30,925 ADDING LANGUAGE TO SUPPORT A NATIONAL EXPANSION. 386 00:20:30,968 --> 00:20:33,841 LATE IN THE NIGHT, NELLIE RUSHES TO NORMA BOYD'S HOUSE 387 00:20:33,884 --> 00:20:36,757 TO REVIEW THE CHANGES. 388 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:38,846 - JUDGE QUANDER: THERE WAS A KNOCK AT THE DOOR. 389 00:20:38,889 --> 00:20:41,631 AND MR. BOYD OPENED THE DOOR. AND THERE WAS NELLIE QUANDER 390 00:20:41,675 --> 00:20:45,331 WITH A STASH OF PAPERS TO BE SIGNED. 391 00:20:45,374 --> 00:20:49,073 - PHYLICIA: THE NEXT MORNING, NELLIE QUANDER, MINNIE SMITH, 392 00:20:49,117 --> 00:20:52,599 NELLIE PRATT, AND JULIA BROOKS NERVOUSLY WAIT FOR 393 00:20:52,642 --> 00:20:55,645 THE COURTHOUSE DOORS TO OPEN. 394 00:20:55,689 --> 00:20:58,387 WITH THE SORORITY'S FATE IN HER HANDS, 395 00:20:58,431 --> 00:21:02,826 NELLIE RUSHES TO FILE THE LEGAL DOCUMENTS. 396 00:21:02,870 --> 00:21:07,962 ON JANUARY 29, 1913, THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ISSUES 397 00:21:08,005 --> 00:21:09,920 THE OFFICIAL CERTIFICATE, 398 00:21:09,964 --> 00:21:13,010 AND ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY, INCORPORATED 399 00:21:13,054 --> 00:21:14,621 IS FOREVERMORE. 400 00:21:17,014 --> 00:21:19,103 - DR. RHODES: INCORPORATING WAS CREATING SUSTAINABILITY 401 00:21:19,147 --> 00:21:22,063 FOR THE SORORITY THAT NOBODY ELSE COULD EVER THINK OF. 402 00:21:22,106 --> 00:21:25,762 IT WAS COURAGE UNDER FIRE, BUT IT'S ALSO THIS INCREDIBLE INNATE 403 00:21:25,806 --> 00:21:30,463 SENSE OF LEADERSHIP AND A CORPORATE STRUCTURE, 404 00:21:30,506 --> 00:21:34,336 BECAUSE THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT SHE DID. 405 00:21:34,380 --> 00:21:36,425 - RASHAN: A YOUNG WOMAN THOUGHT THAT 406 00:21:36,469 --> 00:21:39,123 ALL THE WAY THROUGH AND SAVED US. 407 00:21:42,475 --> 00:21:46,696 SHE SAVED US FROM BEING ERASED AND CHANGED FOREVER. 408 00:21:46,740 --> 00:21:49,482 I'LL ALWAYS WEAR NELLIE QUANDER ON MY BACK. 409 00:21:49,525 --> 00:21:50,831 ALWAYS. 410 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:54,878 - PHYLICIA: NELLIE QUANDER BECOMES THE FIRST PRESIDENT, 411 00:21:54,922 --> 00:21:57,141 ALSO KNOWN AS THE SUPREME BASILEUS, 412 00:21:57,185 --> 00:22:00,971 OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY, INCORPORATED. 413 00:22:01,015 --> 00:22:04,366 THERE IS JUST ONE PROBLEM. 414 00:22:04,410 --> 00:22:09,371 NO UNDERGRADUATE MEMBERS ARE ENROLLED AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY. 415 00:22:09,415 --> 00:22:13,027 NELLIE EMBARKS ON A CAMPAIGN TO REBUILD THE SORORITY 416 00:22:13,070 --> 00:22:14,681 AND INTRODUCE ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA'S 417 00:22:14,724 --> 00:22:18,032 NEW LEADERSHIP. 418 00:22:18,075 --> 00:22:21,209 NELLIE PERSONALLY FUNDS A SCHOLARSHIP, 419 00:22:21,252 --> 00:22:22,863 THE FIRST EVER GIVEN BY 420 00:22:22,906 --> 00:22:27,476 A BLACK GREEK LETTER ORGANIZATION ON AN HBCU CAMPUS. 421 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,958 - IF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA HAD REMAINED THE ONLY SORORITY, 422 00:22:31,001 --> 00:22:33,221 YOU WOULDN'T HAVE THE LARGE GREEK MOVEMENT 423 00:22:33,264 --> 00:22:37,399 AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS THAT YOU HAVE NOW. 424 00:22:37,443 --> 00:22:39,445 THE FACT THAT ONE GROUP LEFT 425 00:22:39,488 --> 00:22:41,969 AND THEN OTHERS DECIDE THAT THEY WERE GOING TO FORM 426 00:22:42,012 --> 00:22:46,408 THEIR OWN SORORITIES AND THEIR OWN FRATERNITIES, 427 00:22:46,452 --> 00:22:49,193 IT'S A GOOD THING. 428 00:22:49,237 --> 00:22:53,328 NOW YOU HAVE A MUCH LARGER NUMBER OF PROFESSIONAL 429 00:22:53,372 --> 00:22:58,594 BLACK PEOPLE WHO ARE OUT THERE DOING THE WORK. 430 00:22:58,638 --> 00:23:01,815 - PHYLICIA: 1913 MARKS A WATERSHED MOMENT NOT JUST 431 00:23:01,858 --> 00:23:07,342 FOR ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA, BUT FOR THE WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT. 432 00:23:07,386 --> 00:23:10,519 THOUSANDS ANSWER THE CALL TO MARCH IN WASHINGTON, DC, 433 00:23:10,563 --> 00:23:14,175 AND DEMAND THE RIGHT TO VOTE. 434 00:23:14,218 --> 00:23:15,785 - [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE] 435 00:23:15,829 --> 00:23:17,526 - PHYLICIA: ALICE PAUL, TOGETHER WITH 436 00:23:17,570 --> 00:23:20,399 THE NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION, 437 00:23:20,442 --> 00:23:22,009 ORGANIZES THE MARCH. 438 00:23:25,055 --> 00:23:28,798 - THE 1913 PARADE COMES AT A MOMENT 439 00:23:28,842 --> 00:23:32,106 THAT IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT FOR THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT. 440 00:23:32,149 --> 00:23:34,848 THE MOVEMENT HAS BEEN PLAGUED BY THIS QUESTION OF, "DO WE ALLOW 441 00:23:34,891 --> 00:23:38,547 "BLACK WOMEN TO WORK ALONGSIDE US IN OUR ORGANIZATIONS, 442 00:23:38,591 --> 00:23:40,462 IN OUR SPACES?" 443 00:23:40,506 --> 00:23:43,944 AND SO THE PARADE KIND OF BRINGS ALL OF THIS TO A HEAD. 444 00:23:43,987 --> 00:23:47,382 - PHYLICIA: ALICE PAUL ADVOCATES TO EXCLUDE BLACK SUFFRAGISTS 445 00:23:47,426 --> 00:23:50,254 FROM PARTICIPATING BECAUSE SHE FEARS WHITE WOMEN 446 00:23:50,298 --> 00:23:52,561 WOULD NOT MARCH ALONGSIDE THEM. 447 00:23:52,605 --> 00:23:54,694 - DR. BURTON: WHEN NELLIE QUANDER FINDS OUT 448 00:23:54,737 --> 00:23:56,609 THAT THEY'RE ABOUT TO HAVE THIS MAJOR MARCH 449 00:23:56,652 --> 00:23:58,872 AND IT DOES NOT INCLUDE BLACK WOMEN, 450 00:23:58,915 --> 00:24:03,137 NELLIE QUANDER IS LIKE, "LISTEN, WE ARE THE ORIGINAL SUFFRAGISTS. 451 00:24:03,180 --> 00:24:07,010 WE HAVE BEEN FIGHTING FOR OUR FREEDOM FOR A VERY LONG TIME." 452 00:24:09,273 --> 00:24:11,624 AND SO SHE'S LOBBYING THIS EMPOWERED WHITE WOMAN 453 00:24:11,667 --> 00:24:13,843 AND TELLING HER WHAT SHE NEEDS TO DO. 454 00:24:15,541 --> 00:24:16,933 - JUDGE QUANDER: NELLIE QUANDER, 455 00:24:16,977 --> 00:24:19,501 IN HER BEST ENGLISH AND POLITE SELF, 456 00:24:19,545 --> 00:24:22,983 ASKED IF WOMEN OF COLOR COULD BE INCLUDED. 457 00:24:23,026 --> 00:24:26,552 SHE DIDN'T GET AN ANSWER FROM ALICE PAUL. 458 00:24:26,595 --> 00:24:28,423 - DR. JOHNSON: "DEAR MADAM. 459 00:24:28,467 --> 00:24:31,687 "FEARING THAT A LETTER WHICH I SENT YOU HAS GONE ASTRAY, 460 00:24:31,731 --> 00:24:33,994 "I AM SENDING YOU THE SAME MATTER. 461 00:24:34,037 --> 00:24:37,650 "THERE ARE A NUMBER OF COLLEGE WOMEN OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY WHO 462 00:24:37,693 --> 00:24:40,957 "WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE PROCESSION. 463 00:24:41,001 --> 00:24:45,527 "WE DO NOT WISH TO ENTER IF WE MUST MEET THE DISCRIMINATION 464 00:24:45,571 --> 00:24:47,834 "ON ACCOUNT OF RACE AFFILIATION. 465 00:24:47,877 --> 00:24:50,358 "CAN YOU ASSIGN US A DESIRABLE PLACE 466 00:24:50,401 --> 00:24:54,144 IN THE COLLEGE WOMEN'S SECTION?" 467 00:24:54,188 --> 00:24:58,409 HER LETTER TO ALICE PAUL DEMONSTRATES WE DIDN'T WANT 468 00:24:58,453 --> 00:25:01,195 TO HAVE JUST A SEAT AT THE TABLE, 469 00:25:01,238 --> 00:25:03,458 BECAUSE IF WE HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE, 470 00:25:03,502 --> 00:25:05,678 THEN THAT MEANS SOMEBODY IS INVITING US. 471 00:25:05,721 --> 00:25:08,028 WE DON'T NEED TO BE INVITED, RIGHT? 472 00:25:08,071 --> 00:25:11,684 I DON'T WANT US TO BE A PART OF THIS UNDER YOUR TERMS, 473 00:25:11,727 --> 00:25:15,078 BECAUSE UNDER YOUR TERMS, MISS PAUL, 474 00:25:15,122 --> 00:25:17,341 YES, WE COULD PARTICIPATE, 475 00:25:17,385 --> 00:25:21,432 BUT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE BACK. 476 00:25:21,476 --> 00:25:23,391 - THE STAKE IN THE GROUND TO ME 477 00:25:23,434 --> 00:25:26,089 IS THAT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO MINIMIZE US. 478 00:25:26,133 --> 00:25:27,917 THAT'S THE STAKE IN THE GROUND. 479 00:25:27,961 --> 00:25:31,007 WHAT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DO IN THIS PARTICULAR SITUATION IS 480 00:25:31,051 --> 00:25:34,881 MAKE ME SMALL, BECAUSE I'M NOT. 481 00:25:34,924 --> 00:25:37,710 - PHYLICIA: ULTIMATELY, THE OTHER ORGANIZERS CONVINCE 482 00:25:37,753 --> 00:25:41,104 ALICE PAUL TO ALLOW BLACK WOMEN TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MARCH. 483 00:25:41,148 --> 00:25:50,897 - ♪ 484 00:25:53,116 --> 00:25:56,642 - PHYLICIA: CARRIE CLIFFORD OF THE NAACP'S "CRISIS" MAGAZINE 485 00:25:56,685 --> 00:25:58,600 COVERED THE EVENT. 486 00:25:58,644 --> 00:26:01,603 SHE REPORTED OVER 40 BLACK SUFFRAGISTS 487 00:26:01,647 --> 00:26:04,171 FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE MARCHED, 488 00:26:04,214 --> 00:26:07,783 INCLUDING TWO DOCTORS, TEACHERS, NURSES, 489 00:26:07,827 --> 00:26:10,220 ARTISTS, HOMEMAKERS, AND STUDENTS. 490 00:26:15,443 --> 00:26:18,315 - OUR FOUNDERS WERE VISIONARY WOMEN. 491 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:23,016 AND IT TRANSLATED INTO THEM WANTING TO EXPAND. 492 00:26:23,059 --> 00:26:26,410 THEY WERE JUMPING IN, AND THEY WERE WANTING TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. 493 00:26:28,064 --> 00:26:30,589 - WE KNEW EVERY MEMBER. 494 00:26:30,632 --> 00:26:32,939 WE KNEW WHERE SHE WAS, 495 00:26:32,982 --> 00:26:35,202 AND WE KNEW HER ABILITY. 496 00:26:35,245 --> 00:26:38,684 NELLIE QUANDER AND EVERYBODY FELT 497 00:26:38,727 --> 00:26:42,383 HAVING CHAPTERS IS WHAT SHOULD BE DONE. 498 00:26:42,426 --> 00:26:46,605 - ♪ 499 00:26:46,648 --> 00:26:51,827 - PHYLICIA: NELLIE QUANDER REACHES OUT TO COLLEGES TO CHARTER NEW CHAPTERS... 500 00:26:51,871 --> 00:26:54,395 BUT DISCOVERS SOME UNIVERSITIES RESIST ESTABLISHING 501 00:26:54,438 --> 00:26:57,267 A SORORITY FOR NEGRO GIRLS ON CAMPUS. 502 00:27:01,054 --> 00:27:04,797 AFTER MONTHS OF LETTERS, VISITS, AND NEGOTIATIONS, 503 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,190 ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA CHARTERS A SECOND CHAPTER 504 00:27:07,234 --> 00:27:09,715 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 505 00:27:09,758 --> 00:27:14,850 A PREDOMINATELY WHITE INSTITUTION--A PWI. 506 00:27:14,894 --> 00:27:18,375 SEVERAL OTHER MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITIES FOLLOW. 507 00:27:18,419 --> 00:27:21,248 - DR. GLOVER: THESE YOUNG LADIES ON A PWI CAMPUS 508 00:27:21,291 --> 00:27:24,468 NEEDED A SAFE HAVEN. 509 00:27:24,512 --> 00:27:26,819 ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA WILL HELP THEM GET THROUGH 510 00:27:26,862 --> 00:27:28,908 DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THEIR COLLEGE LIFE. 511 00:27:31,258 --> 00:27:33,521 - DR. JACKSON: THE RACIAL CLIMATE 512 00:27:33,564 --> 00:27:35,828 OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CAMPUS 513 00:27:35,871 --> 00:27:40,136 WAS THE SAME AS IT WAS ELSEWHERE. 514 00:27:40,180 --> 00:27:43,531 THE STUDENTS IGNORED US. 515 00:27:43,574 --> 00:27:46,665 THERE'S NO FRIENDLINESS SHOWN. 516 00:27:46,708 --> 00:27:50,843 SO WE ORGANIZED THE SORORITY. 517 00:27:50,886 --> 00:27:54,237 THEN WE DECIDED WE'D HAVE OUR PICTURES MADE 518 00:27:54,281 --> 00:27:58,328 TO GO IN THE STUDENTS' MAGAZINE, "THE BLUE AND GOLD." 519 00:27:58,372 --> 00:28:02,463 SO I PAID $45 FOR OUR PAGE. 520 00:28:02,506 --> 00:28:07,163 WE WERE QUITE EXCITED WHEN "B&G" WENT ON SALE. 521 00:28:07,207 --> 00:28:09,383 WE GOT A COPY. 522 00:28:09,426 --> 00:28:11,994 AND MUCH TO OUR SURPRISE, 523 00:28:12,038 --> 00:28:17,217 NOWHERE COULD WE FIND OUR PICTURES IN THERE. 524 00:28:17,260 --> 00:28:20,786 WE WENT TO SEE PRESIDENT BARROWS. 525 00:28:20,829 --> 00:28:24,703 AND HE TOLD US THEY HAD NOT PUBLISHED IT BECAUSE WE WEREN'T 526 00:28:24,746 --> 00:28:27,706 REPRESENTATIVE OF THE STUDENT BODY. 527 00:28:30,796 --> 00:28:31,927 - DR. HARRIS: I WENT TO WEST VIRGINIA 528 00:28:31,971 --> 00:28:33,668 FOR MY UNDERGRAD, MASTERS. 529 00:28:33,712 --> 00:28:35,801 AND THEN I WAS THE ONLY AFRICAN AMERICAN 530 00:28:35,844 --> 00:28:39,587 IN ALL FOUR YEARS OF MEDICAL SCHOOL. 531 00:28:39,630 --> 00:28:43,504 I DIDN'T DO SO WELL MY FIRST COUPLE OF QUIZZES. 532 00:28:43,547 --> 00:28:47,551 MY FIRST THOUGHT WAS, "MAYBE I DON'T BELONG HERE." 533 00:28:47,595 --> 00:28:49,205 YOU HAVE THOSE THOUGHTS AGAIN 534 00:28:49,249 --> 00:28:50,903 WHEN PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS TELLING YOU YOU'RE LESS THAN, 535 00:28:50,946 --> 00:28:55,298 YOU'RE ONLY HERE NOW BECAUSE YOU'RE BLACK. 536 00:28:55,342 --> 00:29:00,086 I KNEW THAT I WAS MISSING A SENSE OF COMMUNITY. 537 00:29:00,129 --> 00:29:02,523 - TWYLA: WHEN I THINK ABOUT MY EXPERIENCE AT A PWI, 538 00:29:02,566 --> 00:29:04,351 AT DRAKE UNIVERSITY, 539 00:29:04,394 --> 00:29:07,223 ROLE MODELS AND EXAMPLES WERE SO IMPORTANT. 540 00:29:07,267 --> 00:29:09,095 THERE WERE ONLY JUST A FEW OF US, 541 00:29:09,138 --> 00:29:11,924 BUT BECAUSE WE HAD THAT CONNECTION, 542 00:29:11,967 --> 00:29:16,102 IT WAS ABLE TO GET US THROUGH OUR YEARS. 543 00:29:16,145 --> 00:29:18,452 - REV. DR. HALE: HAVING THOSE ORGANIZATIONS 544 00:29:18,495 --> 00:29:23,762 SPECIFICALLY GEARED TO ADDRESSING OUR NEEDS, 545 00:29:23,805 --> 00:29:27,896 GIVING US THE KIND OF MOTIVATION THAT WE NEED, 546 00:29:27,940 --> 00:29:30,681 THAT'S WHY WE NEED AFRICAN-AMERICAN SORORITIES 547 00:29:30,725 --> 00:29:34,773 ON PREDOMINATELY WHITE CAMPUSES. 548 00:29:34,816 --> 00:29:38,733 - REPRESENTATION MATTERS. 549 00:29:38,777 --> 00:29:43,042 SO IF I'M HERE, THEN YOU CAN BE HERE, TOO. 550 00:29:45,609 --> 00:29:48,221 - PHYLICIA: WITH SEVERAL CHAPTERS ACROSS THE MIDWEST, 551 00:29:48,264 --> 00:29:51,311 NELLIE QUANDER PREPARES TO CONVENE THE FIRST BOULE, 552 00:29:51,354 --> 00:29:53,748 THE OFFICIAL MEETING OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA. 553 00:29:56,403 --> 00:29:59,798 UNFORTUNATELY, THE US ENTERS WORLD WAR I. 554 00:30:02,452 --> 00:30:05,325 THE MEETING IS POSTPONED. 555 00:30:07,501 --> 00:30:11,810 - [GUNFIRE] 556 00:30:11,853 --> 00:30:14,247 - [BLASTS] 557 00:30:14,290 --> 00:30:21,558 - ♪ 558 00:30:21,602 --> 00:30:24,257 - PHYLICIA: 380,000 BLACK SOLDIERS AND VOLUNTEERS 559 00:30:24,300 --> 00:30:27,826 RETURN FROM WORLD WAR I ANTICIPATING THE DEMOCRACY 560 00:30:27,869 --> 00:30:29,610 THEY HAD FOUGHT FOR ABROAD. 561 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:33,919 MANY WHITES FEAR THAT AFRICAN AMERICANS 562 00:30:33,962 --> 00:30:37,748 WILL NOW DEMAND EQUALITY. 563 00:30:37,792 --> 00:30:42,014 ANTI-BLACK RACE RIOTS ERUPT IN WASHINGTON DC, CHICAGO, 564 00:30:42,057 --> 00:30:44,930 AND 26 OTHER CITIES ACROSS AMERICA. 565 00:30:44,973 --> 00:30:48,716 - [SHOUTING] 566 00:30:48,759 --> 00:30:53,895 - ♪ 567 00:30:53,939 --> 00:30:56,158 - PHYLICIA: MOBS TURN TO LYNCHING, 568 00:30:56,202 --> 00:30:58,944 INCLUDING AT LEAST A DOZEN BLACK VETERANS, 569 00:30:58,987 --> 00:31:01,642 SOME STILL IN UNIFORM-- 570 00:31:01,685 --> 00:31:03,296 AND BLACK WOMEN. 571 00:31:07,039 --> 00:31:08,692 - VP HARRIS: LYNCHINGS. 572 00:31:08,736 --> 00:31:11,913 LEGALIZED SEGREGATION. 573 00:31:11,957 --> 00:31:14,133 OVERT DISCRIMINATION. 574 00:31:14,176 --> 00:31:16,091 WHAT IS IMPORTANT ABOUT THE SORORITY 575 00:31:16,135 --> 00:31:19,312 IS IT REINFORCES THE POINT THAT YOU ARE NOT ALONE. 576 00:31:19,355 --> 00:31:23,011 IN THOSE MOMENTS WHERE WE NEED TO MUSTER THE COURAGE 577 00:31:23,055 --> 00:31:28,408 TO SHOW PEOPLE WHAT CAN BE UNBURDENED BY WHAT HAS BEEN. 578 00:31:28,451 --> 00:31:32,716 - SECRETARY BUNCH: THE COUNTRY IS RILED UP OVER ISSUES OF RACE. 579 00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:35,284 BUT YOU ALSO HAVE AFRICAN AMERICANS 580 00:31:35,328 --> 00:31:39,288 REALLY TRYING TO MARSHAL THEIR RESOURCES 581 00:31:39,332 --> 00:31:41,073 TO MAKE THINGS BETTER AT A VERY DIFFICULT TIME. 582 00:31:44,250 --> 00:31:48,210 - PHYLICIA: NELLIE HOSTS THE FIRST OFFICIAL BOULE IN 1918 583 00:31:48,254 --> 00:31:50,560 IN WASHINGTON, DC. 584 00:31:50,604 --> 00:31:54,913 FIFTY MEMBERS ATTEND. 585 00:31:54,956 --> 00:31:57,611 THE FOLLOWING YEAR, LORRAINE RICHARDSON GREEN 586 00:31:57,654 --> 00:32:00,396 TAKES ON THE MANTLE OF SUPREME BASILEUS. 587 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,833 AND THE BOULE COMES INTO ITS OWN, 588 00:32:02,877 --> 00:32:07,055 WITH EIGHT CHAPTERS REPRESENTED IN CHICAGO. 589 00:32:07,099 --> 00:32:09,884 - SECRETARY BUNCH: ONE OF THE POWERS OF THE BOULE IS BRINGING 590 00:32:09,928 --> 00:32:13,018 PEOPLE TOGETHER IN A KIND OF SOCIAL SETTING. 591 00:32:13,061 --> 00:32:18,153 BUT THEY USE THAT SOCIAL SETTING TO PUSH POLITICAL AGENDAS. 592 00:32:18,197 --> 00:32:20,242 - PHYLICIA: AT THE 1921 BOULE, 593 00:32:20,286 --> 00:32:23,985 LORRAINE RICHARDSON GREEN SENDS A TELEGRAM TO PRESIDENT HARDING 594 00:32:24,029 --> 00:32:28,033 URGING THE PASSAGE OF THE DIRE ANTI-LYNCHING BILL. 595 00:32:28,076 --> 00:32:32,472 THIS BILL WOULD ESTABLISH LYNCHING AS A FEDERAL CRIME. 596 00:32:32,515 --> 00:32:35,910 THE PRESIDENT IGNORES THE TELEGRAM. 597 00:32:35,954 --> 00:32:39,087 DUE TO FILIBUSTER, THE BILL NEVER REACHES A SENATE VOTE 598 00:32:39,131 --> 00:32:43,004 IN 1922, 1923, 599 00:32:43,048 --> 00:32:45,659 OR 1924. 600 00:32:48,705 --> 00:32:50,533 UNDERSTANDING THE CRITICAL NEED 601 00:32:50,577 --> 00:32:54,885 FOR SHARING AND COMMUNICATING WITHIN THE SISTERHOOD, 602 00:32:54,929 --> 00:32:59,020 LORRAINE RICHARDSON GREEN INTRODUCES "THE IVY LEAF." 603 00:32:59,064 --> 00:33:03,024 - ♪ 604 00:33:03,068 --> 00:33:05,505 - LORRAINE GREEN WROTE A NOTE AND SAID, 605 00:33:05,548 --> 00:33:08,551 "THIS IS OUR ATTEMPT TO CONNECT WITH YOU. 606 00:33:08,595 --> 00:33:11,076 "WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR MEMBERS WERE ENGAGED 607 00:33:11,119 --> 00:33:14,166 AND INVOLVED." 608 00:33:14,209 --> 00:33:17,125 "THE IVY LEAF" CAME FROM THOSE WOMEN 609 00:33:17,169 --> 00:33:18,822 WHO WANTED TO TELL THEIR STORIES. 610 00:33:18,866 --> 00:33:20,607 SOME WERE JOURNALISTS. 611 00:33:20,650 --> 00:33:23,610 MOST WERE EDUCATORS SHOWING THEIR CREATIVE SIDE. 612 00:33:23,653 --> 00:33:27,222 A SIDE THAT AFRICAN AMERICANS WEREN'T ABLE TO EXPRESS. 613 00:33:30,617 --> 00:33:34,447 - ♪ GOT TO GET OUT THAT-- 614 00:33:34,490 --> 00:33:36,492 - PHYLICIA: AT THE TIME, THE DOMINANT PORTRAYAL OF 615 00:33:36,536 --> 00:33:40,409 BLACK WOMEN CONSISTS OF DEMEANING STEREOTYPES. 616 00:33:40,453 --> 00:33:43,238 JEZEBEL, THE LASCIVIOUS TEMPTRESS. 617 00:33:43,282 --> 00:33:46,502 - YOU'RE NOT IN A HURRY, IS YOU, MASSA? 618 00:33:46,546 --> 00:33:49,766 - PHYLICIA: AND SAPPHIRE, THE ANGRY BLACK WOMAN. 619 00:33:49,810 --> 00:33:51,899 - AND I GUESS YOU THINK YOU COULD COOK, CLEAN, 620 00:33:51,942 --> 00:33:57,644 AND GET ALONG JUST FINE ALL BY YOURSELF! 621 00:33:57,687 --> 00:33:59,733 - PHYLICIA: "THE IVY LEAF" COUNTERS WITH POSITIVE 622 00:33:59,776 --> 00:34:04,303 DEPICTIONS OF BLACK WOMANHOOD WRITTEN BY BLACK WOMEN. 623 00:34:04,346 --> 00:34:06,696 - TINA: "THE IVY LEAF" HAS BEEN CONTINUOUSLY PUBLISHED 624 00:34:06,740 --> 00:34:09,090 FOR ALMOST 100 YEARS. 625 00:34:09,134 --> 00:34:12,267 IT SHOWS THE FULLNESS OF BLACK LIFE, 626 00:34:12,311 --> 00:34:17,011 BECAUSE WE ARE SO MUCH MORE THAN STRUGGLE HISTORY. 627 00:34:17,055 --> 00:34:20,493 - NORMA: EVERY ISSUE OF "THE IVY LEAF" CARRIED WHAT IS EXPECTED 628 00:34:20,536 --> 00:34:26,020 OF MEMBERS AND WHAT THE SORORITY HAS DONE AND CAN DO, 629 00:34:26,064 --> 00:34:29,806 AND HOW THEY CAN INSPIRE OTHERS THROUGH WHAT WE DO. 630 00:34:29,850 --> 00:34:32,896 - REV. DR. HALE: IT'S NOT FILLED WITH SILLY THINGS. 631 00:34:32,940 --> 00:34:36,552 IT'S FILLED WITH A SERVICE, OPPORTUNITIES, 632 00:34:36,596 --> 00:34:41,557 THE BUSINESS OF THE SORORITY. 633 00:34:41,601 --> 00:34:43,777 - PHYLICIA: READERS CLOSELY FOLLOW "THE IVY LEAF" COVERAGE 634 00:34:43,820 --> 00:34:46,084 OF THEIR CHAPTER'S LOCAL ACTIVITIES 635 00:34:46,127 --> 00:34:48,869 AND THEIR TRAVELS TO THE BOULES. 636 00:34:48,912 --> 00:34:50,131 - [TRAIN CHUGGING] 637 00:34:50,175 --> 00:34:52,046 - [BELL RINGS] - [WHISTLE BLOWS] 638 00:34:52,090 --> 00:34:55,223 - PHYLICIA: BLACK WOMEN CROSSING STATE LINES ALONE OR IN GROUPS 639 00:34:55,267 --> 00:34:57,747 AND LEAVING THEIR HUSBANDS AND FAMILIES AT HOME 640 00:34:57,791 --> 00:35:01,273 SIGNAL A CHANGE. 641 00:35:01,316 --> 00:35:04,232 THIS IS A NEWFOUND INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM 642 00:35:04,276 --> 00:35:06,756 THAT PUSHES THE BOUNDARIES. 643 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,018 - MY GRANDFATHER WOULD'VE HAD A FIT. 644 00:35:08,062 --> 00:35:10,282 "WHAT DO YOU MEAN? 645 00:35:10,325 --> 00:35:12,022 "YOU MEAN YOU'RE NOT COOKING FOR FOUR AND FIVE DAYS? 646 00:35:12,066 --> 00:35:13,546 YEAH, NO." 647 00:35:13,589 --> 00:35:15,417 - THEY SET THE DATE. 648 00:35:15,461 --> 00:35:17,811 THEY IDENTIFIED A LOCATION. 649 00:35:17,854 --> 00:35:21,293 THEY HAD TO FIND A WAY TO GET THERE. 650 00:35:21,336 --> 00:35:25,253 - KAYLEN: I CAN IMAGINE SOME YOUNG BLACK WOMEN IN A VEHICLE 651 00:35:25,297 --> 00:35:28,169 THAT MOST WHITE PEOPLE DIDN'T HAVE, DRIVING AROUND, 652 00:35:28,213 --> 00:35:32,173 TRYING TO GO TO A BOULE, AND THEN GETTING THERE SAFELY. 653 00:35:32,217 --> 00:35:34,175 PERSONALLY, I WOULD BE SCARED. 654 00:35:34,219 --> 00:35:36,525 PEOPLE OF COLOR GET PULLED OVER NOW. 655 00:35:38,048 --> 00:35:41,443 - MARTHA: EARLY ON, THE BOULE WOULD BE HELD AT YMCAS 656 00:35:41,487 --> 00:35:45,795 OR PLACES THAT COULD ACCOMMODATE THE BLACK COMMUNITY. 657 00:35:45,839 --> 00:35:48,102 THEY HAD TO STAY IN THE HOMES OF MEMBERS, 658 00:35:48,146 --> 00:35:51,932 BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T ALWAYS HAVE HOTELS. 659 00:35:51,975 --> 00:35:53,455 - KAYLEN: YOU HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF, 660 00:35:53,499 --> 00:35:55,065 ARE YOU REALLY AS STRONG AS YOUR FOUNDERS WERE? 661 00:35:55,109 --> 00:36:01,507 - ♪ 662 00:36:01,550 --> 00:36:05,598 - PHYLICIA: FOR THE 1932 BOULE, ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA CHANGES COURSE 663 00:36:05,641 --> 00:36:10,298 TO A FIRST-TIME SUMMERTIME GATHERING ON THE WEST COAST. 664 00:36:10,342 --> 00:36:15,825 DR. IDA JACKSON HOSTS THE BOULE IN LOS ANGELES. 665 00:36:15,869 --> 00:36:18,480 THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ROLLS OUT THE RED CARPET 666 00:36:18,524 --> 00:36:20,395 WITH LUXURY TOURS OF HOLLYWOOD. 667 00:36:23,616 --> 00:36:26,271 THE BOULE PROGRAM INCLUDES EMERGING STARLET, 668 00:36:26,314 --> 00:36:29,012 AKA MEMBER ETTA MOTEN. 669 00:36:29,056 --> 00:36:31,232 - ♪ YOU SENT HIM FAR AWAY 670 00:36:31,276 --> 00:36:33,539 ♪ YOU SHOUTED HIP HOORAY 671 00:36:33,582 --> 00:36:35,149 ♪ BUT LOOK AT HIM TODAY 672 00:36:35,193 --> 00:36:37,847 - PHYLICIA: THE SORORITY CALLS THE 1932 BOULE 673 00:36:37,891 --> 00:36:39,719 "THE GREATEST TO DATE." 674 00:36:43,766 --> 00:36:53,689 - ♪ 675 00:36:56,562 --> 00:36:58,259 - PHYLICIA: THE FOLLOWING YEAR, 676 00:36:58,303 --> 00:37:01,393 DR. IDA JACKSON LEADS A GROUP OF SORORITY VOLUNTEERS 677 00:37:01,436 --> 00:37:06,485 TO TEACH A SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAM IN HER NATIVE MISSISSIPPI. 678 00:37:06,528 --> 00:37:08,313 - ANNA: DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION, 679 00:37:08,356 --> 00:37:11,272 AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE SOUTH WERE NEGATIVELY AFFECTED, 680 00:37:11,316 --> 00:37:14,188 IN RURAL AREAS, THEY SANK BELOW 681 00:37:14,232 --> 00:37:17,931 EVEN THE LOWEST BAR AT THAT POINT. 682 00:37:17,974 --> 00:37:20,281 BY THE TIME THAT FDR TOOK OFFICE, 683 00:37:20,325 --> 00:37:23,676 THERE WAS THIS INCREDIBLE UNDERCUTTING OF ANY KIND OF 684 00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,461 STABLE EMPLOYMENT FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS. 685 00:37:29,421 --> 00:37:32,250 - THE CONDITIONS WERE SO TERRIBLE. 686 00:37:32,293 --> 00:37:36,602 SOME OF THE CHILDREN DIDN'T EVEN HAVE CLOTHES. 687 00:37:36,645 --> 00:37:38,299 THEY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A NAME. 688 00:37:38,343 --> 00:37:41,128 THEY WERE CALLED "NAAGER GAL." 689 00:37:41,171 --> 00:37:44,000 IDA JACKSON WAS DETERMINED TO DO MORE. 690 00:37:46,133 --> 00:37:48,962 - PHYLICIA: DR. IDA JACKSON GAINS THE SORORITY'S APPROVAL 691 00:37:49,005 --> 00:37:53,358 FOR THE MISSISSIPPI HEALTH PROJECT. 692 00:37:53,401 --> 00:37:56,883 - DR. FEREBEE: SO IDA JACKSON APPOINTED ME TO BE THE DIRECTOR 693 00:37:56,926 --> 00:38:00,060 OF THE HEALTH SERVICE. 694 00:38:00,103 --> 00:38:03,106 GOING TO MISSISSIPPI WAS QUITE AN ORDEAL. 695 00:38:03,150 --> 00:38:04,630 WHEN I WENT TO THE RAILWAY STATION 696 00:38:04,673 --> 00:38:06,849 IN WASHINGTON TO BUY TICKETS, 697 00:38:06,893 --> 00:38:12,115 THE OFFICER UP AT WINDOW WOULD NOT SELL ME 17 TICKETS. 698 00:38:12,159 --> 00:38:14,248 HE SAID, "THAT WILL TAKE UP ALL THE SPACE WE HAVE 699 00:38:14,292 --> 00:38:17,599 IN THOSE SPECIAL CARS." HE WOULDN'T SAY JIM CROW CARS. 700 00:38:17,643 --> 00:38:21,386 "YOU TAKE 17, WE'LL HAVE NO SPACE FOR OUR OTHER -- ." 701 00:38:21,429 --> 00:38:24,302 HE FORGOT HIMSELF THEN. 702 00:38:24,345 --> 00:38:28,828 WE REVAMPED OUR PLANS AND SAID THAT WE'LL GO BY CAR. 703 00:38:28,871 --> 00:38:38,316 - ♪ 704 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:43,495 - WE HAD A GROUP OF SORORS WHO CAME FROM WASHINGTON, DC, 705 00:38:43,538 --> 00:38:45,366 FROM BOSTON AND NEW YORK. 706 00:38:45,410 --> 00:38:48,369 GOT IN THEIR CARS AND DROVE DOWN TO THE DELTA IN MISSISSIPPI. 707 00:38:48,413 --> 00:38:58,379 - ♪ 708 00:39:00,512 --> 00:39:02,165 - DR. GLOVER: AND CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT THEY ENCOUNTERED? 709 00:39:05,908 --> 00:39:08,302 - ♪ 710 00:39:08,346 --> 00:39:10,130 - DR. FEREBEE: THE VERY FIRST PLACE WE WENT TO 711 00:39:10,173 --> 00:39:13,394 WAS IN HOLMES COUNTY. 712 00:39:13,438 --> 00:39:16,615 WHEN THEY FOUND OUT THAT A GROUP OF NEGRO WOMEN 713 00:39:16,658 --> 00:39:19,400 WANTED TO COME INTO THEIR COUNTY TO DO A HEALTH JOB, 714 00:39:19,444 --> 00:39:22,403 THEY WERE VERY, VERY HOSTILE. 715 00:39:22,447 --> 00:39:24,405 - PHYLICIA: THE SORORITY MEMBERS CRISSCROSSED THE HUMID, 716 00:39:24,449 --> 00:39:27,060 MOSQUITO-RIDDEN BACK ROADS OF HOLMES COUNTY. 717 00:39:31,325 --> 00:39:33,893 - DR. FEREBEE: THE ROADS WERE NOTHING BUT MUD AND SAND, 718 00:39:33,936 --> 00:39:38,288 AND WHEN YOU TRAVEL, NOTHING BUT DUST. 719 00:39:38,332 --> 00:39:40,769 - PHYLICIA: AT PLANTATION AFTER PLANTATION, 720 00:39:40,813 --> 00:39:43,381 SKEPTICAL MISSISSIPPI DELTA LANDOWNERS SUSPECT 721 00:39:43,424 --> 00:39:47,428 THAT THE AKA VOLUNTEERS ARE NORTHERN AGITATORS. 722 00:39:51,345 --> 00:39:52,868 - DR. FEREBEE: THEY DIDN'T WANT US AT ALL. 723 00:39:52,912 --> 00:39:54,522 SO THEY TURNED US DOWN. WE COULDN'T DO IT. 724 00:39:56,742 --> 00:39:59,397 HERE WE WERE, IN MISSISSIPPI, WITH ALL THE MATERIALS 725 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,921 THAT WE HAD BOUGHT, THE DRUGS THAT WE HAD BOUGHT, 726 00:40:01,964 --> 00:40:03,357 AND COULDN'T USE THEM. 727 00:40:05,315 --> 00:40:07,448 - PHYLICIA: AFTER 13 REJECTIONS, 728 00:40:07,492 --> 00:40:12,758 THE SORORITY SISTERS HAD EXHAUSTED ALL OF THEIR OPTIONS. 729 00:40:12,801 --> 00:40:17,458 FINALLY, THEY RECEIVED A HELPFUL TIP. 730 00:40:17,502 --> 00:40:21,027 A PLANTATION OWNER JUST OUTSIDE OF TOWN. 731 00:40:21,070 --> 00:40:22,507 - DR. FEREBEE: THERE WAS JUST ONE WHO SAID, 732 00:40:22,550 --> 00:40:24,160 "WELL, I THINK THIS IS A GOOD IDEA. 733 00:40:24,204 --> 00:40:26,554 WE OUGHTA LET THEM COME IN AND TRY." 734 00:40:26,598 --> 00:40:30,253 SO RELUCTANTLY, THEY ALLOWED US TO START A CLINIC. 735 00:40:36,172 --> 00:40:38,914 BUT THEY WOULD NOT ALLOW THE BLACKS 736 00:40:38,958 --> 00:40:43,049 TO LEAVE THEIR JOB OF PICKING COTTON AND HOEING THE WEEDS 737 00:40:43,092 --> 00:40:47,749 TO COME TO ANY OF THE FIVE CLINICS THAT WE HAD PROPOSED. 738 00:40:47,793 --> 00:40:49,925 SO WE HAD A LITTLE CONSULTATION. 739 00:40:49,969 --> 00:40:53,799 AND WE SAID, "WELL, IF THEY CAN'T COME TO US, 740 00:40:53,842 --> 00:40:56,671 WE'LL GO TO THEM." 741 00:40:56,715 --> 00:40:58,499 AND IT WAS THERE THAT WE STARTED 742 00:40:58,543 --> 00:41:03,199 THE FIRST MOBILE HEALTH CLINIC IN THE COUNTRY. 743 00:41:03,243 --> 00:41:05,158 WE STARTED AT 5 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, 744 00:41:05,201 --> 00:41:06,768 AND WE DIDN'T CARE 745 00:41:06,812 --> 00:41:08,291 WHETHER WE FOUND A BUILDING TO SET UP OR NOT. 746 00:41:08,335 --> 00:41:10,337 WE USED OUTDOOR CLINICS. 747 00:41:10,380 --> 00:41:20,390 - ♪ 748 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:22,305 - DR. FEREBEE: LITTLE BY LITTLE, 749 00:41:22,349 --> 00:41:24,133 WE NOT ONLY EDUCATED OUR OWN PEOPLE, 750 00:41:24,177 --> 00:41:26,919 BUT WE EDUCATED THE HOSTILE PLANTATION OWNERS. 751 00:41:29,530 --> 00:41:31,053 - PHYLICIA: FOR ALMOST A DECADE, 752 00:41:31,097 --> 00:41:33,926 ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA MEMBERS FROM ACROSS THE US 753 00:41:33,969 --> 00:41:36,058 FORGO THEIR SUMMER VACATIONS 754 00:41:36,102 --> 00:41:39,627 TO VOLUNTEER IN THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA. 755 00:41:39,671 --> 00:41:42,848 OVER THE COURSE OF THE PROJECT, MORE THAN 20,000 PEOPLE 756 00:41:42,891 --> 00:41:45,372 RECEIVE MUCH-NEEDED MEDICAL ATTENTION 757 00:41:45,415 --> 00:41:47,853 AND LIFE-SAVING IMMUNIZATIONS. 758 00:41:47,896 --> 00:41:50,246 - ♪ 759 00:41:50,290 --> 00:41:51,421 - DR. FEREBEE: IT WAS THE HARDEST YEAR 760 00:41:51,465 --> 00:41:53,859 THAT WE HAD PUT INTO ANYTHING. 761 00:41:53,902 --> 00:41:56,339 AND THOSE WOMEN WHO WORKED LEARNED A GREAT DEAL ABOUT 762 00:41:56,383 --> 00:41:58,298 THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE EVERYWHERE. 763 00:41:58,341 --> 00:42:01,083 - ♪ 764 00:42:03,912 --> 00:42:05,784 - PHYLICIA: THE MISSISSIPPI HEALTH PROJECT REPORT LANDS 765 00:42:05,827 --> 00:42:09,222 ON THE DESK OF FIRST LADY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. 766 00:42:09,265 --> 00:42:11,790 SHE INVITES DR. FEREBEE AND DR. JACKSON TO THE WHITE HOUSE 767 00:42:11,833 --> 00:42:14,706 TO DISCUSS THE FINDINGS. 768 00:42:14,749 --> 00:42:17,273 THIS IS THE START OF A DEEP RELATIONSHIP 769 00:42:17,317 --> 00:42:19,624 BETWEEN THE FIRST LADY AND THE SORORITY. 770 00:42:22,757 --> 00:42:25,543 - SECRETARY BUNCH: YOU SEE ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA ASSESSING: 771 00:42:25,586 --> 00:42:30,722 WHERE CAN WE PROVIDE THE GREATEST BENEFIT? 772 00:42:30,765 --> 00:42:33,376 THERE WAS AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE 773 00:42:33,420 --> 00:42:36,118 THAT SOMETIMES MALE LEADERSHIP DID NOT SEE. 774 00:42:39,426 --> 00:42:41,863 - THE MISSISSIPPI HEALTH PROJECT WAS OUTSTANDING. 775 00:42:41,907 --> 00:42:43,865 THAT'S ONE REASON WHY THE SORORITY 776 00:42:43,909 --> 00:42:46,215 HAS A HUGE HEALTH COMPONENT TODAY. 777 00:42:46,259 --> 00:42:48,478 - [CHEERING] 778 00:42:48,522 --> 00:42:51,481 - THE LADIES OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY ARE SETTING UP A MOBILE MAMMOGRAPHY UNIT 779 00:42:51,525 --> 00:42:55,268 TO PROVIDE FREE BREAST CANCER SCREENING. 780 00:42:55,311 --> 00:42:58,619 - JENNIFER: TO HAVE A UNIT THAT WOULD GO ACROSS THE COUNTRY 781 00:42:58,663 --> 00:43:02,231 TO SERVE UNINSURED AND UNDERINSURED WOMEN 782 00:43:02,275 --> 00:43:05,800 TO GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A MAMMOGRAM, 783 00:43:05,844 --> 00:43:08,542 THAT IS PROLONGING THE LIVES OF WOMEN. 784 00:43:11,023 --> 00:43:14,374 - ORA: BEING UNDER THE BRIDGE IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, 785 00:43:14,417 --> 00:43:16,245 WITH HOMELESS WOMEN 786 00:43:16,289 --> 00:43:19,945 AND BRINGING THOSE WOMEN TO THE MOBILE MAMMOGRAPHY UNIT, 787 00:43:19,988 --> 00:43:22,600 THAT WAS A VERY PROFOUND MOMENT. 788 00:43:22,643 --> 00:43:26,734 - AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN HAVE A HIGH RATE OF DEATHS 789 00:43:26,778 --> 00:43:29,084 RELATED TO BREAST CANCER. 790 00:43:29,128 --> 00:43:32,435 HAVING THE MAMMOGRAM FOR THOSE WHO DON'T HAVE INSURANCE 791 00:43:32,479 --> 00:43:36,483 OR HAVE ACCESS TO GO TO A HOSPITAL IS A LIFESAVER. 792 00:43:36,526 --> 00:43:37,919 - ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA HAS THE RESOURCES. 793 00:43:37,963 --> 00:43:39,617 WE HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE. 794 00:43:39,660 --> 00:43:41,053 WHY WOULDN'T WE GO OUT THERE 795 00:43:41,096 --> 00:43:45,361 AND DO OUR PART TO TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER? 796 00:43:45,405 --> 00:43:46,798 - WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THINGS 797 00:43:46,841 --> 00:43:48,713 THAT IMPACT OUR EVERYDAY CITIZEN, 798 00:43:48,756 --> 00:43:51,150 EVERYDAY LIVES, EVERYDAY BLACK LIVES, 799 00:43:51,193 --> 00:43:53,805 IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA HAD THEIR FOOT 800 00:43:53,848 --> 00:43:57,983 IN THE DOOR WHEN IT CAME TO AFFECTING POLICY. 801 00:43:58,026 --> 00:44:02,988 - [SHOUTING, CHANTING] 802 00:44:03,031 --> 00:44:06,644 - PHYLICIA: THE NAACP, SUPPORTED BY ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA, 803 00:44:06,687 --> 00:44:09,734 WORKS WITH NEW YORK SENATOR WAGNER TO DRAFT YET ANOTHER 804 00:44:09,777 --> 00:44:12,519 ANTI-LYNCHING BILL. 805 00:44:12,562 --> 00:44:14,869 FIRST LADY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT'S PUBLIC SUPPORT 806 00:44:14,913 --> 00:44:17,872 OF ANTI-LYNCHING LEGISLATION 807 00:44:17,916 --> 00:44:21,876 DRAWS CRITICISM AND DEATH THREATS. 808 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,096 SHE FINDS HERSELF THE LONE VOICE 809 00:44:24,139 --> 00:44:26,751 IN SUPPORT OF THE BILL INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE. 810 00:44:26,794 --> 00:44:29,362 - [INDISTINCT CHATTER] 811 00:44:29,405 --> 00:44:31,756 - PHYLICIA: IN FEBRUARY 1938, 812 00:44:31,799 --> 00:44:34,802 NORMA BOYD READS A "NEW YORK TIMES" ARTICLE 813 00:44:34,846 --> 00:44:38,371 REPORTING THAT THE SENATE SIDELINES THE ANTI-LYNCHING BILL 814 00:44:38,414 --> 00:44:42,201 IN EXCHANGE FOR THE NEW DEAL RELIEF BILLS. 815 00:44:42,244 --> 00:44:44,638 NORMA BOYD TAKES ACTION. 816 00:44:45,421 --> 00:44:47,075 - WE WERE HAVING A MEETING AT 817 00:44:47,119 --> 00:44:51,427 DOROTHY FEREBEE'S HOUSE THAT EVENING. 818 00:44:51,471 --> 00:44:53,734 I DECIDED WE WERE GOING TO FIND OUT 819 00:44:53,778 --> 00:44:57,346 WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE CONGRESS. 820 00:44:57,390 --> 00:45:00,610 THE GIRLS SAID "YES!" 821 00:45:00,654 --> 00:45:04,223 THAT WAS THE NON-PARTISAN COUNCIL ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS. 822 00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:07,487 - KASEY: THE NATIONAL NON-PARTISAN COUNCIL 823 00:45:07,530 --> 00:45:09,184 OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS 824 00:45:09,228 --> 00:45:12,535 WAS THE FIRST BLACK LOBBYING GROUP IN OUR COUNTRY. 825 00:45:12,579 --> 00:45:15,887 - WHEN I THINK ABOUT WHO OUR FOUNDERS WERE, I MEAN, 826 00:45:15,930 --> 00:45:17,758 THESE WERE SOME BAD WOMEN. 827 00:45:17,802 --> 00:45:20,456 [LAUGHS] THEY WERE SERIOUS. 828 00:45:20,500 --> 00:45:22,023 THEY WERE NOT PLAYING AROUND. 829 00:45:22,067 --> 00:45:24,460 THEY WERE ABOUT SAYING, 830 00:45:24,504 --> 00:45:28,203 "WE WILL LEAD AND NOT ASK PERMISSION TO DO IT." 831 00:45:29,988 --> 00:45:33,992 - WHEN WE GOT THE OFFICE OPENED AND EMPLOYED THESE TWO PEOPLE, 832 00:45:34,035 --> 00:45:35,863 WE HAD 130 DOLLARS-- 833 00:45:35,907 --> 00:45:39,562 NOT ENOUGH TO PAY THEM ONE MONTH. 834 00:45:39,606 --> 00:45:45,438 BUT YOU CAN BET YOUR LIFE EVERY GIRL WAS GETTING BY THERE, 835 00:45:45,481 --> 00:45:49,572 GIVING US HER 10 DOLLARS. 836 00:45:49,616 --> 00:45:52,401 - PHYLICIA: NORMA BOYD TAPS THOMASINA WALKER JOHNSON, 837 00:45:52,445 --> 00:45:55,883 A FORMER SCHOOLTEACHER WITH A PASSION FOR POLITICS, 838 00:45:55,927 --> 00:45:58,886 AS ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA'S FIRST FULL-TIME LOBBYIST 839 00:45:58,930 --> 00:46:02,498 FOR THE NON-PARTISAN COUNCIL. 840 00:46:02,542 --> 00:46:04,805 SHE IS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN 841 00:46:04,849 --> 00:46:06,938 TO BECOME A REGISTERED LOBBYIST. 842 00:46:09,941 --> 00:46:12,813 ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA LAUNCHES EXTENSIVE CAMPAIGNS TO COMBAT 843 00:46:12,857 --> 00:46:16,643 SEGREGATION AND DISCRIMINATION. 844 00:46:16,686 --> 00:46:18,079 - JUDGE ADAMS: ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA 845 00:46:18,123 --> 00:46:20,299 WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE FARMERS RELIEF ACT, 846 00:46:20,342 --> 00:46:23,476 ENSURING THAT FARMERS WERE PROTECTED. 847 00:46:23,519 --> 00:46:27,132 AND IT WAS ON THE FRONT LINES OF ANTI-POLL TAX LEGISLATION. 848 00:46:27,175 --> 00:46:29,699 WE'VE BEEN FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT TO VOTE 849 00:46:29,743 --> 00:46:32,572 AND PROTECTING THAT RIGHT FOR A LONG TIME. 850 00:46:32,615 --> 00:46:35,009 - [SIRENS] 851 00:46:35,053 --> 00:46:37,272 - [BLASTS] 852 00:46:37,316 --> 00:46:39,318 - PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 853 00:46:39,361 --> 00:46:42,147 WAS SUDDENLY AND DELIBERATELY ATTACKED 854 00:46:42,190 --> 00:46:44,497 BY THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN. 855 00:46:48,022 --> 00:46:53,985 - [BLASTS, GUNFIRE] 856 00:46:54,028 --> 00:46:56,596 - WOMAN: NOW IT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER TO FOLLOW 857 00:46:56,639 --> 00:46:59,947 THE BOYS TO VICTORY. 858 00:46:59,991 --> 00:47:05,170 - CYNTHIA: WORLD WAR II CREATED OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN. 859 00:47:05,213 --> 00:47:08,086 - WOMAN: IT'S STYLISH TO BE A WAAC. 860 00:47:08,129 --> 00:47:11,437 - CYNTHIA: IN 1942, THE GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED THE WAC, 861 00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:13,743 THE WOMEN'S ARMY CORPS. 862 00:47:13,787 --> 00:47:17,443 THE NAVY HAD WHAT WAS CALLED THE WAVES. 863 00:47:17,486 --> 00:47:20,968 THERE WEREN'T ANY TYPE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN OFFICERS 864 00:47:21,012 --> 00:47:25,146 IN THE NAVY, MAN OR WOMAN. 865 00:47:25,190 --> 00:47:28,497 - JUDGE WHITNER: ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA WAS ON THE FOREFRONT OF 866 00:47:28,541 --> 00:47:31,936 SAYING THAT NOT ONLY DO YOU NEED WOMEN, YOU NEED WOMEN OF COLOR. 867 00:47:31,979 --> 00:47:34,982 THEY LOBBIED TO INTEGRATE BLACK WOMEN INTO THE MILITARY. 868 00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,770 WE ARE JUST AS PATRIOTIC. WE ARE JUST AS READY 869 00:47:40,814 --> 00:47:45,123 TO LAY OUR LIVES ON THE LINE FOR OUR COUNTRY. 870 00:47:45,166 --> 00:47:47,821 - PHYLICIA: THOMASINA WALKER JOHNSON APPEARS IN OVER 871 00:47:47,865 --> 00:47:50,911 100 CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS. 872 00:47:50,955 --> 00:47:53,392 THOMASINA FACES HOSTILE QUESTIONS AND REMARKS 873 00:47:53,435 --> 00:47:55,916 FROM SENATORS NOT EXPECTING A WOMAN, 874 00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:57,918 ESPECIALLY A BLACK WOMAN. 875 00:47:57,962 --> 00:48:03,489 - ♪ 876 00:48:03,532 --> 00:48:05,099 - JUDGE ADAMS: THE AUDACITY OF BLACK WOMEN 877 00:48:05,143 --> 00:48:07,058 TO GO TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS 878 00:48:07,101 --> 00:48:10,496 AND REQUEST TO BE HEARD JUST SHOWS YOU THAT 879 00:48:10,539 --> 00:48:14,935 WHEN YOU HAVE A COMMITMENT TO JUSTICE AND EQUALITY, 880 00:48:14,979 --> 00:48:17,764 THERE'S VERY LITTLE THAT CAN STOP US. 881 00:48:17,807 --> 00:48:19,984 - PHYLICIA: PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ISSUES EXECUTIVE ORDERS 882 00:48:20,027 --> 00:48:24,336 TO DESEGREGATE THE MILITARY AND THE DEFENSE INDUSTRIES. 883 00:48:24,379 --> 00:48:27,252 - IT WAS THE AKA LETTERS AND THE EXCHANGES. 884 00:48:27,295 --> 00:48:32,822 THOSE DETAILS LED TO HOW THIS LEGISLATION COULD HAPPEN. 885 00:48:32,866 --> 00:48:37,566 THE UNSUNG WORK OF NON-PARTISAN COUNCIL IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT, 886 00:48:37,610 --> 00:48:41,527 I THINK, TO ALL OF OUR HISTORY. 887 00:48:41,570 --> 00:48:43,050 - DR. HARRIS: FOR THE MOST PART IN THIS COUNTRY, 888 00:48:43,094 --> 00:48:44,660 CHANGE IS INCREMENTAL. 889 00:48:47,011 --> 00:48:50,144 YOU WIN A BATTLE, AND YOU WIN THE NEXT BATTLE. 890 00:48:50,188 --> 00:48:53,060 AND SOMETIMES THAT'S THE JOURNEY. 891 00:48:53,104 --> 00:48:56,585 SO THAT WAS A BATTLE THAT WE LED ON AND THAT WE WON. 892 00:48:58,848 --> 00:49:04,724 - IN 1944, THE WAVES INITIATED AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN. 893 00:49:04,767 --> 00:49:07,466 THE FIRST WAS AN ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA WOMAN. 894 00:49:07,509 --> 00:49:09,772 HER NAME WAS HARRIET PICKENS. 895 00:49:09,816 --> 00:49:11,600 - JUDGE WHITNER: WHEN I DECIDED TO JOIN THE MILITARY, 896 00:49:11,644 --> 00:49:15,996 IT WAS A STRONG DESIRE TO USE MY SKILLS AND MY TRAINING 897 00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,564 TO MAKE MY COUNTRY BETTER. 898 00:49:18,607 --> 00:49:22,263 HAVING MY SISTERS PAVE THAT WAY FOR ME, VERY IMPORTANT. 899 00:49:22,307 --> 00:49:24,744 AND I'M VERY GLAD I'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY, ONE, 900 00:49:24,787 --> 00:49:27,921 TO SERVE MY COUNTRY IN THE MILITARY AS A JAG OFFICER, 901 00:49:27,965 --> 00:49:31,620 AND NOW TO SERVE MY COUNTY AS A JUDGE. 902 00:49:31,664 --> 00:49:35,581 - I LOVE THE COUNTRY AND I WANTED TO SERVE LIKE MY FATHER. 903 00:49:35,624 --> 00:49:39,715 GOING FROM HIGH SCHOOL TO THE ARMY, FROM COLLEGE TO THE CIA, 904 00:49:39,759 --> 00:49:43,241 AND CIA INTO ELECTED OFFICE. 905 00:49:43,284 --> 00:49:47,854 SO I APPRECIATE OUR SOROR MAKING A WAY FOR US. 906 00:49:50,074 --> 00:49:51,814 - PHYLICIA: FORCED TO INTEGRATE, 907 00:49:51,858 --> 00:49:56,254 THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS, NACA, 908 00:49:56,297 --> 00:50:01,911 WHICH BECOMES NASA, HIRES BLACK WOMEN. 909 00:50:01,955 --> 00:50:04,001 MARY JACKSON, WHO LATER BECOMES 910 00:50:04,044 --> 00:50:06,960 NASA'S FIRST BLACK FEMALE ENGINEER, 911 00:50:07,004 --> 00:50:10,398 JOINS THE ALL-BLACK HUMAN COMPUTING UNIT. 912 00:50:10,442 --> 00:50:12,835 HER SOROR, DOROTHY JOHNSON VAUGHAN, 913 00:50:12,879 --> 00:50:15,273 BECOMES THE SUPERVISOR. 914 00:50:15,316 --> 00:50:19,059 KATHERINE JOHNSON ALSO JOINS THE TEAM. 915 00:50:19,103 --> 00:50:21,235 SOON, KATHERINE RECEIVES A PROMOTION 916 00:50:21,279 --> 00:50:23,672 TO THE GUIDANCE AND CONTROL DIVISION, 917 00:50:23,716 --> 00:50:26,023 A GROUP OF ALL-WHITE MEN. 918 00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:28,460 - KATHERINE: THERE WERE ABOUT TWENTY OF US. 919 00:50:28,503 --> 00:50:32,203 I WAS THE ONLY BLACK WOMAN. 920 00:50:32,246 --> 00:50:36,163 WE DID ALL THE HAND WORK ON DESK CALCULATORS. 921 00:50:37,599 --> 00:50:40,646 I WAS MOST PROUD OF THE TRAJECTORY TO THE MOON. 922 00:50:42,126 --> 00:50:45,216 WE HAD TO COMPUTE THE LAUNCH CONDITIONS. 923 00:50:46,478 --> 00:50:49,263 THOSE WERE VERY INTRICATE CALCULATIONS. 924 00:50:49,307 --> 00:50:52,223 AND I WAS VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THEM. 925 00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,009 - NEIL AMRSTRONG: 1201. - MAN: ROGER. 1201 ALARM. 926 00:50:56,053 --> 00:50:58,098 - [BEEPING] 927 00:50:58,142 --> 00:51:01,362 - NEIL: HOUSTON... 928 00:51:01,406 --> 00:51:03,060 THE EAGLE HAS LANDED. 929 00:51:08,152 --> 00:51:10,023 - [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 930 00:51:10,067 --> 00:51:12,591 - PHYLICIA: THE BOX OFFICE HIT "HIDDEN FIGURES" IMMORTALIZES 931 00:51:12,634 --> 00:51:15,942 KATHERINE, DOROTHY, AND MARY. 932 00:51:15,985 --> 00:51:20,033 - WE ALL SAW "HIDDEN FIGURES." AND WE WATCHED IT WITH PRIDE. 933 00:51:20,077 --> 00:51:24,124 THE THREE WOMEN WERE ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA WOMEN. 934 00:51:24,168 --> 00:51:26,779 ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA HAS A CONNECTION WITH NASA. 935 00:51:26,822 --> 00:51:32,045 WE'VE HAD IT SINCE NORMA BOYD MADE IT POSSIBLE IN THE 1930S. 936 00:51:32,089 --> 00:51:35,918 - NORMA BOYD HAD THE COURAGE TO PURSUE SOMETHING AND SAY, 937 00:51:35,962 --> 00:51:39,226 "I HAVE THE RIGHT TO ACCESS POWER." 938 00:51:41,098 --> 00:51:43,274 MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, 939 00:51:43,317 --> 00:51:47,234 REALLY WANTED TO BOND WITH WOMEN WHO WERE STRONG MINDED, 940 00:51:47,278 --> 00:51:48,801 WHO WERE REALLY SMART. 941 00:51:51,673 --> 00:51:53,806 - JUDGE ADAMS: IT IS A SIGNIFICANT THAT A FIRST LADY 942 00:51:53,849 --> 00:51:57,331 OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THAT TIME IN OUR NATION'S HISTORY, 943 00:51:57,375 --> 00:52:03,337 WAS WILLING TO ALIGN HERSELF WITH ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA. 944 00:52:03,381 --> 00:52:06,123 - FOR HER TO EMBRACE THE SISTERHOOD WHEN SHE WAS OFFERED 945 00:52:06,166 --> 00:52:10,866 AN HONORARY MEMBERSHIP WAS SUCH A POWERFUL STATEMENT. 946 00:52:10,910 --> 00:52:15,001 - IT MEANT A LOT TO HER TO HAVE THAT MEMBERSHIP. 947 00:52:15,044 --> 00:52:17,351 - MAN: PRESIDENT TRUMAN ASKS ELEANOR ROOSEVELT TO ACCEPT 948 00:52:17,395 --> 00:52:20,180 AN APPOINTMENT TO THE UNITED NATIONS. 949 00:52:20,224 --> 00:52:23,270 - WHEN THE UNITED NATIONS WAS OPENED 950 00:52:23,314 --> 00:52:26,012 WE WERE THE ONLY SORORITY, 951 00:52:26,055 --> 00:52:28,623 I MEAN BLACK OR WHITE, 952 00:52:28,667 --> 00:52:31,452 ACCREDITED AT THE UNITED NATIONS. 953 00:52:31,496 --> 00:52:33,106 - THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION-- 954 00:52:33,150 --> 00:52:34,673 - PHYLICIA: ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA'S ASSOCIATION 955 00:52:34,716 --> 00:52:37,893 WITH ELEANOR ROOSEVELT AND THE UNITED NATIONS 956 00:52:37,937 --> 00:52:41,897 SETS INTO MOTION THE VISION TO EXPAND GLOBALLY. 957 00:52:41,941 --> 00:52:43,334 - CLARICE: THE FIRST COUNTRY THAT CHARTERED 958 00:52:43,377 --> 00:52:47,512 AN INTERNATIONAL CHAPTER WAS IN LIBERIA, 959 00:52:47,555 --> 00:52:52,169 LED BY SOROR ANNA E. COOPER IN 1958. 960 00:52:54,083 --> 00:52:58,610 ONE OF OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAMS IN LIBERIA IS WORKING WITH 961 00:52:58,653 --> 00:53:01,482 A LOCAL ORGANIZATION CALLED OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE. 962 00:53:01,526 --> 00:53:06,618 AND THEY SEW REUSABLE SANITARY PADS FOR YOUNG GIRLS. 963 00:53:06,661 --> 00:53:09,403 YOUNG LADIES HAVE WHAT THEY NEED IN A REUSABLE, 964 00:53:09,447 --> 00:53:13,015 SUSTAINABLE MANNER TO STAY IN SCHOOLS. 965 00:53:13,059 --> 00:53:15,192 - I'M DEFINITELY GLAD TO BE HERE IN JAPAN, 966 00:53:15,235 --> 00:53:19,196 WHERE WE CAN LAYER OUR PROGRAMS ON TOP OF CULTURES, 967 00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:21,633 ON TOP OF CUSTOMS. 968 00:53:21,676 --> 00:53:24,244 - MS. POITIER-TURNQUEST: WHEN ETHEL AND THE FOUNDERS DECIDED 969 00:53:24,288 --> 00:53:27,813 THAT IT WILL BE SERVICE TO ALL MANKIND, 970 00:53:27,856 --> 00:53:31,164 I REALLY DON'T THINK SHE HAD A CLUE 971 00:53:31,208 --> 00:53:35,560 HOW FAR-REACHING THOSE WORDS WOULD BE. 972 00:53:35,603 --> 00:53:37,388 - WE MAKE ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA 973 00:53:37,431 --> 00:53:40,608 TRULY AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION. 974 00:53:45,352 --> 00:53:47,049 - PHYLICIA: IN THE POSTWAR 1950S, 975 00:53:47,093 --> 00:53:50,357 THE UNITED STATES IS A GLOBAL POWER. 976 00:53:50,401 --> 00:53:52,751 THE DECADE USHERS IN A GOLDEN AGE OF PROSPERITY 977 00:53:52,794 --> 00:53:55,319 FOR WHITE AMERICA. 978 00:53:55,362 --> 00:53:57,669 - DR. THOMPSON: THERE IS TWO AMERICAS: 979 00:53:57,712 --> 00:54:01,238 WHITE SUBURBAN AMERICA, LIKE IN THE OLD TV SHOWS 980 00:54:01,281 --> 00:54:03,849 "LEAVE IT TO BEAVER," "OZZIE AND HARRIET." 981 00:54:03,892 --> 00:54:05,459 - DOES SHE HAVE INFLUENCE? 982 00:54:05,503 --> 00:54:07,635 - DR. THOMPSON: WHERE YOU LIVE WITH YOUR 2.4 KIDS 983 00:54:07,679 --> 00:54:11,726 IN THE RANCH HOUSE YOU BOUGHT. 984 00:54:11,770 --> 00:54:15,208 THEN YOU HAVE THE OTHER AMERICA. 985 00:54:15,252 --> 00:54:19,081 BLACK AMERICANS FACING INCREDIBLE REDLINING. 986 00:54:19,125 --> 00:54:23,347 NOT BEING ABLE TO BUY HOUSES IN WHITE NEIGHBORHOODS. 987 00:54:23,390 --> 00:54:27,002 - THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND BANKS IN AMERICA ESSENTIALLY 988 00:54:27,046 --> 00:54:32,094 UNDERMINE SOME OF THE PROGRESS IN BUYING REAL ESTATE. 989 00:54:32,138 --> 00:54:35,315 ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA HAD THE CORE IDEA 990 00:54:35,359 --> 00:54:37,404 THAT PART OF THE WAY YOU BUILD AN INSTITUTION 991 00:54:37,448 --> 00:54:39,188 IS TO HAVE A PIECE OF REAL ESTATE 992 00:54:39,232 --> 00:54:42,670 THAT NOBODY ELSE CAN TAKE AWAY FROM YOU. 993 00:54:42,714 --> 00:54:45,499 - PHYLICIA: IN 1952, THE AKAS INVEST 994 00:54:45,543 --> 00:54:49,677 IN THEIR FIRST NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS IN CHICAGO. 995 00:54:49,721 --> 00:54:52,898 - WHEN YOU THINK OF THE VISION OF THESE WOMEN 996 00:54:52,941 --> 00:54:55,074 TO BUY REAL ESTATE, 997 00:54:55,117 --> 00:54:57,903 THEY UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF 998 00:54:57,946 --> 00:55:00,949 INSTITUTION-BUILDING. 999 00:55:00,993 --> 00:55:02,777 - PHYLICIA: THIRTY YEARS LATER, THEY COMMISSION 1000 00:55:02,821 --> 00:55:08,130 A STATE-OF-THE-ART IVY CENTER IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN. 1001 00:55:08,174 --> 00:55:12,744 - CYNTHIA: THE PROPERTY, IT'S OWNED BY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN. 1002 00:55:12,787 --> 00:55:15,486 IT'S PAID FOR LOCK, STOCK, AND BARREL. 1003 00:55:15,529 --> 00:55:18,576 WE NEVER HAD ANY DEBT AGAINST THAT BUILDING. 1004 00:55:18,619 --> 00:55:25,496 - ♪ 1005 00:55:25,539 --> 00:55:28,673 - PHYLICIA: ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA, KEENLY AWARE OF THE IMPORTANCE 1006 00:55:28,716 --> 00:55:32,764 OF POSITIVE SELF-IMAGE, UNABASHEDLY CHOOSES TO SUPPORT 1007 00:55:32,807 --> 00:55:36,550 PROJECTS THAT CELEBRATE BLACK WOMANHOOD. 1008 00:55:36,594 --> 00:55:38,552 - I WAS A DEBUTANTE. MY SISTER WAS A DEBUTANTE. 1009 00:55:38,596 --> 00:55:41,903 AND MY THREE NIECES WERE ALL DEBUTANTES. 1010 00:55:41,947 --> 00:55:43,296 A LOT OF YOUNG LADIES WANT THAT EXPERIENCE 1011 00:55:43,340 --> 00:55:47,692 OF HAVING THEIR MOMENT. 1012 00:55:47,735 --> 00:55:49,128 - CANDACE: WE RAISED A LOT OF MONEY, 1013 00:55:49,171 --> 00:55:51,173 WHICH WENT TO MY COLLEGE EDUCATION. 1014 00:55:51,217 --> 00:55:55,961 I HAD TO GO OUT AND TAKE A PUBLIC SPEAKING CLASS, DO THE ETIQUETTE CLASS, 1015 00:55:56,004 --> 00:55:58,311 GO TO A GREAT BALL AND DO THIS GREAT DANCE. 1016 00:55:58,355 --> 00:56:03,534 - ♪ 1017 00:56:03,577 --> 00:56:05,274 - CANDACE: I WAS CROWNED QUEEN. 1018 00:56:05,318 --> 00:56:08,365 MY DAD ACTUALLY, I THINK, CRIED, WHICH IS CRAZY. 1019 00:56:08,408 --> 00:56:10,236 THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A LITTLE BLACK GIRL TO FEEL BEAUTIFUL, 1020 00:56:10,279 --> 00:56:13,152 LIKE, IN A BIG WHITE WEDDING DRESS. 1021 00:56:13,195 --> 00:56:16,416 - ♪ 1022 00:56:16,460 --> 00:56:18,679 - IT IS OLD-FASHIONED AND IMPORTANT. 1023 00:56:18,723 --> 00:56:20,377 NOT EVERYTHING THAT'S OLD IS BAD. 1024 00:56:22,770 --> 00:56:24,555 THERE'S WISDOM THAT COMES FROM THAT. 1025 00:56:27,471 --> 00:56:32,432 - IT IS SO CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE THAT BLACK GIRLS 1026 00:56:32,476 --> 00:56:37,481 SEE THE IMAGES OF WHAT A BLACK WOMAN CAN BE. 1027 00:56:37,524 --> 00:56:40,092 THE SORORITY WAS FOUNDED TO BREAK BARRIERS. 1028 00:56:42,790 --> 00:56:46,272 - PHYLICIA: AKA LUCINDA WILSON TODD DREAMS OF A HIGH-QUALITY 1029 00:56:46,315 --> 00:56:51,277 EDUCATION FOR HER ONLY DAUGHTER, NANCY. 1030 00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:54,236 LUCINDA ATTEMPTS TO ENROLL HER AT THE ALL-WHITE SCHOOL LOCATED 1031 00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:57,239 WITHIN A FEW BLOCKS OF THEIR HOME, 1032 00:56:57,283 --> 00:57:00,895 BUT IS DENIED ADMISSION. 1033 00:57:00,939 --> 00:57:03,158 OUTRAGED, LUCINDA WRITES A LETTER 1034 00:57:03,202 --> 00:57:08,163 TO THE NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND REQUESTING SUPPORT. 1035 00:57:08,207 --> 00:57:11,123 SHE RECRUITS 12 ADDITIONAL PARENTS TO JOIN HER 1036 00:57:11,166 --> 00:57:15,040 AS PETITIONERS IN A CLASS ACTION SUIT. 1037 00:57:15,083 --> 00:57:16,998 AT LUCINDA'S KITCHEN TABLE, 1038 00:57:17,042 --> 00:57:20,306 NAACP CHIEF COUNSEL THURGOOD MARSHALL 1039 00:57:20,349 --> 00:57:23,135 OUTLINES THE STRATEGY OF WHAT WILL BECOME 1040 00:57:23,178 --> 00:57:27,966 BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION. 1041 00:57:28,009 --> 00:57:32,666 - CONSTANCE: NAACP STARTED THEIR STRATEGY FOR ATTACKING 1042 00:57:32,710 --> 00:57:36,278 SEGREGATION THROUGH ONE AREA WHICH THEY FELT WAS VITAL 1043 00:57:36,322 --> 00:57:38,585 TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY. 1044 00:57:38,629 --> 00:57:43,503 AND EDUCATION SEEMED TO BE THAT AREA. 1045 00:57:43,547 --> 00:57:46,811 - PHYLICIA: ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA MEMBER CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY 1046 00:57:46,854 --> 00:57:49,553 BECOMES THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN EVER 1047 00:57:49,596 --> 00:57:53,470 TO ARGUE A CASE BEFORE THE US SUPREME COURT. 1048 00:57:53,513 --> 00:57:57,996 SHE WILL WIN NINE CASES. 1049 00:57:58,039 --> 00:58:00,520 CONSTANCE IS THE CHIEF STRATEGIST 1050 00:58:00,564 --> 00:58:04,219 ON THE BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION CASE. 1051 00:58:04,263 --> 00:58:06,961 - CONSTANCE: WHEN THE SUPREME COURT GOT THAT CASE, 1052 00:58:07,005 --> 00:58:11,400 IT HAD BEFORE IT A DIRECT ASSAULT ON THE CONCEPT OF 1053 00:58:11,444 --> 00:58:15,883 SEPARATE, BUT EQUAL AS APPLIED TO EDUCATION. 1054 00:58:15,927 --> 00:58:19,017 - VP HARRIS: MY HEROES WERE CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY 1055 00:58:19,060 --> 00:58:20,975 AND THURGOOD MARSHALL. 1056 00:58:21,019 --> 00:58:24,501 THOSE LAWYERS UNDERSTOOD THE ABILITY TO TRANSLATE THE PASSION 1057 00:58:24,544 --> 00:58:27,547 FROM THE STREETS TO THE COURTROOMS OF OUR COUNTRY 1058 00:58:27,591 --> 00:58:30,550 AND DO THE IMPORTANT WORK OF REMINDING PEOPLE 1059 00:58:30,594 --> 00:58:32,770 THAT WE ARE ALL AND SHOULD BE TREATED AS EQUALS. 1060 00:58:35,207 --> 00:58:37,035 - PHYLICIA: THE SUPREME COURT'S UNANIMOUS DECISION 1061 00:58:37,078 --> 00:58:39,603 IN BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION 1062 00:58:39,646 --> 00:58:42,693 IS A WATERSHED MOMENT AND A VISIBLE CATALYST 1063 00:58:42,736 --> 00:58:46,523 PUSHING BACK AGAINST SEGREGATION. 1064 00:58:46,566 --> 00:58:49,221 - THEY WANT TO THROW WHITE CHILDREN AND COLORED CHILDREN 1065 00:58:49,264 --> 00:58:51,615 INTO THE MELTING POT OF INTEGRATION. 1066 00:58:51,658 --> 00:58:54,052 - PHYLICIA: THE LANDMARK WIN IN 1954 1067 00:58:54,095 --> 00:58:56,402 UNLEASHES A NEW ERA OF TERROR. 1068 00:58:56,445 --> 00:58:58,622 - MAN: --MONGREL CLASS OF PEOPLE! 1069 00:58:58,665 --> 00:59:02,582 [UNINTELLIGIBLE] WILL BE DESTROYED IN SUCH A MOVEMENT. 1070 00:59:02,626 --> 00:59:04,323 - PHYLICIA: FOURTEEN MONTHS LATER, 1071 00:59:04,366 --> 00:59:07,500 14-YEAR-OLD EMMETT TILL IS LYNCHED WHILE VISITING 1072 00:59:07,544 --> 00:59:09,415 HIS FAMILY IN MISSISSIPPI. 1073 00:59:11,983 --> 00:59:14,594 - CONSTANCE: WHEN BLACKS DEMONSTRATED THAT THEY WERE 1074 00:59:14,638 --> 00:59:18,729 INTERESTED IN THE INDIGNITIES THAT THEY HAD TO FACE, 1075 00:59:18,772 --> 00:59:20,905 AND SO WE HAD A MOVEMENT 1076 00:59:20,948 --> 00:59:25,039 THAT SPRUNG UP AMONG THE PEOPLE. 1077 00:59:25,083 --> 00:59:28,216 - DR. KING: TODAY I WANT TO SAY TO THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA, 1078 00:59:28,260 --> 00:59:30,871 WE'RE ON THE MOVE NOW. 1079 00:59:30,915 --> 00:59:34,396 YES, WE'RE ON THE MOVE, AND NO WAVE OF RACISM CAN STOP US. 1080 00:59:37,704 --> 00:59:40,533 - DANETTE: ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA CHAPTERS MADE SURE THEY WERE 1081 00:59:40,577 --> 00:59:43,841 AVAILABLE TO PROVIDE HEALTH AND SERVICES, 1082 00:59:43,884 --> 00:59:47,627 ESPECIALLY TO THE WOMEN AND THE YOUNG GIRLS WHO HAD TRAVELED TO 1083 00:59:47,671 --> 00:59:51,631 SUPPORT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, THE FREEDOM MARCHES. 1084 00:59:51,675 --> 00:59:54,242 AND A LOT OF TIMES, THOSE GIRLS WERE HURT, 1085 00:59:54,286 --> 00:59:55,853 AND THEY NEEDED MEDICAL TREATMENT. 1086 00:59:55,896 --> 01:00:00,727 - ♪ 1087 01:00:00,771 --> 01:00:02,555 - DANETTE: THEY COULD NOT GO TO A HOSPITAL. 1088 01:00:02,599 --> 01:00:04,165 SO WHERE COULD YOU GO? 1089 01:00:08,126 --> 01:00:12,130 WE DID HAVE A LOT OF SORORITY MEMBERS WHO WERE DOCTORS, 1090 01:00:12,173 --> 01:00:14,872 NURSES, SO THEY COULD HELP OTHERS. 1091 01:00:16,482 --> 01:00:22,183 - DR. WATKINS: TO HAVE AN INTACT GROUP OF WOMEN THAT COULD BE 1092 01:00:22,227 --> 01:00:27,188 SOUGHT OUT FOR ANY NUMBER OF RESOURCES 1093 01:00:27,232 --> 01:00:32,193 WAS VERY HELPFUL TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. 1094 01:00:32,237 --> 01:00:34,631 - CAROLYN: THEY FED THE FREEDOM RIDERS. 1095 01:00:34,674 --> 01:00:36,676 THEY DROVE DURING THE BOYCOTT. 1096 01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:39,505 THEY LOANED THEIR NAMES TO A LAWSUIT. 1097 01:00:39,548 --> 01:00:42,290 SO MANY WOMEN OF AFRICAN AMERICAN DESCENT 1098 01:00:42,334 --> 01:00:44,597 ARE THE UNSUNG HEROES OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. 1099 01:00:44,641 --> 01:00:50,385 - ♪ 1100 01:00:50,429 --> 01:00:53,258 - PHYLICIA: AKA ROSA PARKS IS RECOGNIZED FOR HER ROLE 1101 01:00:53,301 --> 01:00:56,565 IN TRIGGERING THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT. 1102 01:00:56,609 --> 01:00:59,220 - THE TIME HAS COME TO NOT TAKE IT ANYMORE. 1103 01:00:59,264 --> 01:01:01,919 I'D HAD ENOUGH, AND THIS WAS TRULY THE END 1104 01:01:01,962 --> 01:01:05,096 OF BEING PUSHED AROUND. 1105 01:01:05,139 --> 01:01:07,011 - PHYLICIA: HOWEVER, PRIOR TO THIS, 1106 01:01:07,054 --> 01:01:11,102 SHE WORKED AS AN INVESTIGATOR FOR THE NAACP SEEKING JUSTICE 1107 01:01:11,145 --> 01:01:14,496 FOR BLACK VICTIMS OF LYNCHING AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE. 1108 01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:19,545 GLORIA RICHARDSON IS THE FIRST WOMAN IN AMERICA 1109 01:01:19,588 --> 01:01:22,026 TO LEAD A GRASSROOTS CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION 1110 01:01:22,069 --> 01:01:24,855 OUTSIDE THE DEEP SOUTH. 1111 01:01:24,898 --> 01:01:26,770 SHE FACES DOWN THE NATIONAL GUARD 1112 01:01:26,813 --> 01:01:32,036 DURING HER NONVIOLENT CAMPAIGNS IN MARYLAND. 1113 01:01:32,079 --> 01:01:35,387 CORETTA SCOTT KING EMERGED ON THE WORLD STAGE AS THE WIFE OF 1114 01:01:35,430 --> 01:01:37,215 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING. 1115 01:01:37,258 --> 01:01:39,173 BUT SHE WAS AN EARLY ACTIVIST 1116 01:01:39,217 --> 01:01:42,611 AND NAACP MEMBER AT ANTIOCH COLLEGE 1117 01:01:42,655 --> 01:01:45,527 LONG BEFORE SHE MET HER FUTURE HUSBAND. 1118 01:01:45,571 --> 01:01:47,268 - MY FATHER DIDN'T MAKE MY MOTHER. 1119 01:01:47,312 --> 01:01:50,663 WHEN THEY MET, SHE WAS ALREADY WELL ESTABLISHED. 1120 01:01:50,707 --> 01:01:55,233 SHE UNDERSTOOD THE POWER OF BEING A WOMAN WHO STOOD 1121 01:01:55,276 --> 01:01:59,759 IN YOUR OWN RIGHT AND YOUR OWN STRENGTH. 1122 01:01:59,803 --> 01:02:02,936 - VP HARRIS: IN 1964, 300 MEMBERS OF THE SORORITY 1123 01:02:02,980 --> 01:02:08,028 CAME TO WASHINGTON, DC, TO SHOW WITH FORCE 1124 01:02:08,072 --> 01:02:12,859 A FACE OF THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN AMERICA. 1125 01:02:12,903 --> 01:02:14,905 THEY WERE NOT OUTSIDERS. 1126 01:02:14,948 --> 01:02:16,733 THEY WERE AMERICAN LEADERS 1127 01:02:16,776 --> 01:02:20,911 DEMANDING THAT AMERICA BE TRUE TO HER PROMISE. 1128 01:02:20,954 --> 01:02:23,348 - MAN: THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 1129 01:02:23,391 --> 01:02:26,264 IS SIGNED AT THE WHITE HOUSE BY PRESIDENT JOHNSON 1130 01:02:26,307 --> 01:02:28,266 BEFORE AN AUDIENCE OF LEGISLATORS-- 1131 01:02:28,309 --> 01:02:31,269 - DR. GLOVER: WE TALK ABOUT THE INFLUENCE OF FOUNDER NORMA BOYD 1132 01:02:31,312 --> 01:02:33,314 AND WHAT SHE DID FOR THE MILITARY. 1133 01:02:33,358 --> 01:02:35,664 SHE ALSO DID THAT IN LEGISLATIVE BODIES. 1134 01:02:35,708 --> 01:02:39,886 SHE MADE IT POSSIBLE THAT OTHERS COULD SEEK PUBLIC OFFICE. 1135 01:02:39,930 --> 01:02:44,021 WE HAVE VICKI MILES-LAGRANGE, A FEDERAL JUDGE IN OKLAHOMA. 1136 01:02:44,064 --> 01:02:48,025 PEGGY QUINCE, WHO WAS THE CHIEF JUSTICE IN FLORIDA. 1137 01:02:48,068 --> 01:02:49,722 - THIS IS A GREAT HISTORIC MOMENT-- 1138 01:02:49,766 --> 01:02:54,292 - MARTHA: SHEILA JACKSON LEE, FREDERICA WILSON, 1139 01:02:54,335 --> 01:02:57,817 ALL THESE FAMOUS WOMEN IN CONGRESS 1140 01:02:57,861 --> 01:03:00,777 WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THIS SORORITY. 1141 01:03:00,820 --> 01:03:03,431 - BREYHANA: I WAS ABLE TO INTERN FOR CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS. 1142 01:03:03,475 --> 01:03:04,911 KNOWING THE CONGRESSMAN'S LEGACY 1143 01:03:04,955 --> 01:03:07,784 MADE ME WANT TO WORK IN POLITICS. 1144 01:03:07,827 --> 01:03:09,742 AND SEEING MEMBERS OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA IN CONGRESS 1145 01:03:09,786 --> 01:03:12,832 SHOWED ME THAT I COULD. 1146 01:03:17,881 --> 01:03:20,753 - PHYLICIA: GREAT PROGRESS WAS MADE IN THE 1960S. 1147 01:03:20,797 --> 01:03:23,669 BUT THE PASSAGE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT DID NOT SOLVE 1148 01:03:23,712 --> 01:03:26,106 ALL THE PROBLEMS FACING AFRICAN AMERICANS. 1149 01:03:28,587 --> 01:03:32,373 - AT 7:10 THIS EVENING, MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS SHOT. 1150 01:03:32,417 --> 01:03:34,854 MARTIN LUTHER KING, 20 MINUTES AGO, DIED. 1151 01:03:34,898 --> 01:03:40,642 - [GASPING, SHOUTING] 1152 01:03:40,686 --> 01:03:46,518 - ♪ HE WAS DREAMIN' OF THE DAY ♪ 1153 01:03:46,561 --> 01:03:52,176 ♪ PEACE WOULD COME TO EARTH TO STAY ♪ 1154 01:03:52,219 --> 01:03:54,961 ♪ AND HE SPREAD HIS MESSAGE-- 1155 01:03:55,005 --> 01:03:57,094 - DR. BEATRICE KING: WHEN DADDY WAS ASSASSINATED, I WAS FIVE. 1156 01:03:57,137 --> 01:04:02,099 - ♪ 1157 01:04:02,142 --> 01:04:06,538 - DR. KING: AND WE HAVE SUCH A STRONG TRADITION IN OUR FAMILY 1158 01:04:06,581 --> 01:04:11,804 OF BEING A PART OF SOMETHING SIGNIFICANT AND MEANINGFUL. 1159 01:04:11,848 --> 01:04:13,371 WE DON'T TAKE THAT LIGHTLY. 1160 01:04:13,414 --> 01:04:17,679 - I HAD PROPOSED THAT WE BUY THE BIRTHPLACE 1161 01:04:17,723 --> 01:04:19,725 OF MARTIN LUTHER KING 1162 01:04:19,768 --> 01:04:22,423 SO THAT THIS NEXT GENERATION COMING ALONG, 1163 01:04:22,467 --> 01:04:25,296 MANY OF WHOM MAY NOT REMEMBER, 1164 01:04:25,339 --> 01:04:29,517 COULD SEE HIS LIFE AND HIS CONTRIBUTION. 1165 01:04:29,561 --> 01:04:31,955 - DR. KING: ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA THOUGHT THAT WAS IMPORTANT, 1166 01:04:31,998 --> 01:04:36,829 TO TIE THAT HISTORY TO PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS. 1167 01:04:36,873 --> 01:04:41,921 SOME WORK IS NOT LOUD AND ADVERTISED IN A ENORMOUS WAY, 1168 01:04:41,965 --> 01:04:44,315 BUT IT DOES NOT MEAN THE WORK IS NOT HAPPENING. 1169 01:04:47,187 --> 01:04:50,277 - PHYLICIA: BY THE LATE 1960S, DROPOUT RATES AND UNEMPLOYMENT 1170 01:04:50,321 --> 01:04:54,368 ARE SKYROCKETING, ESPECIALLY AMONG GIRLS. 1171 01:04:54,412 --> 01:04:57,284 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PARTNERS WITH ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA 1172 01:04:57,328 --> 01:04:59,678 TO IMPLEMENT THE CLEVELAND JOB CORPS. 1173 01:05:01,636 --> 01:05:04,813 - THE LARGEST FEDERAL CONTRACT EVER AWARDED TO A WOMEN'S-BASED 1174 01:05:04,857 --> 01:05:08,295 ORGANIZATION TO OPERATE A FEDERAL JOB CORPS CENTER. 1175 01:05:08,339 --> 01:05:11,037 AND WE DID THAT FOR OVER 30 YEARS. 1176 01:05:13,126 --> 01:05:15,259 - INDIVIDUALS IN THE COMMUNITY WANT TO SEE SOMEONE WHO LOOKS 1177 01:05:15,302 --> 01:05:17,914 LIKE THEM PROVIDING A SERVICE. 1178 01:05:17,957 --> 01:05:20,960 THEY WANT TO KNOW A TRUSTED VOICE. 1179 01:05:21,004 --> 01:05:23,180 - PHYLICIA: THOUSANDS GRADUATE FROM THE PROGRAM AND LAND JOBS 1180 01:05:23,223 --> 01:05:26,835 IN VIRTUALLY ALL INDUSTRIES. 1181 01:05:26,879 --> 01:05:31,101 THE MOST AMBITIOUS STUDENTS RECEIVE AKA SCHOLARSHIPS. 1182 01:05:31,144 --> 01:05:32,580 - SECRETARY BUNCH: YOU SEE EXAMPLES 1183 01:05:32,624 --> 01:05:35,061 LIKE THE JOB CORPS CENTER IN CLEVELAND 1184 01:05:35,105 --> 01:05:39,109 OF PEOPLE RECOGNIZING IT'S NOT ENOUGH THAT 1185 01:05:39,152 --> 01:05:41,024 THOSE OF US WHO GOT THROUGH 1186 01:05:41,067 --> 01:05:44,027 THE WINDOW OF EDUCATION ARE PROSPERING. 1187 01:05:44,070 --> 01:05:47,682 THE GOAL IS TO IMPROVE THE LOT OF BLACK AMERICA. 1188 01:05:49,946 --> 01:05:52,078 - ♪ 1189 01:05:52,122 --> 01:05:54,994 - PHYLICIA: AMERICAN CULTURE IS EXPANDED BY THE RICH TRADITIONS 1190 01:05:55,038 --> 01:05:57,518 ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA CREATES AND SHARES. 1191 01:06:00,130 --> 01:06:02,349 FROM A TAPESTRY OF EXPERIENCES 1192 01:06:02,393 --> 01:06:04,786 CHERISHED BY ITS MEMBERS AND ALL WHO WITNESS IT. 1193 01:06:06,353 --> 01:06:08,007 - MY HUSBAND AND I WERE DRIVING AROUND. 1194 01:06:08,051 --> 01:06:10,314 AND I SAID, "LET'S GO UP ON CAMPUS." 1195 01:06:10,357 --> 01:06:14,013 HE HAS HEARD ME TALK ABOUT THE YARD FOREVER. 1196 01:06:14,057 --> 01:06:17,756 AND THEN WE GOT OUT THE CAR AND I SHOWED HIM OUR TREE. 1197 01:06:17,799 --> 01:06:21,978 IT TOOK ME BACK TO THAT EXTRAORDINARY PART OF MY LIFE 1198 01:06:22,021 --> 01:06:25,503 THAT REALLY HAD SO MUCH, ASIDE FROM MY MOTHER AND MY FAMILY, 1199 01:06:25,546 --> 01:06:28,027 TO DO WITH WHO I AM TODAY. 1200 01:06:28,071 --> 01:06:31,074 IT TOOK ME BACK TO THOSE DAYS OF 1201 01:06:31,117 --> 01:06:34,425 WATCHING THE SORORS STEP AROUND THE TREE. 1202 01:06:34,468 --> 01:06:37,254 - ♪ 1203 01:06:37,297 --> 01:06:39,952 - TINA: I ATTENDED VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY. 1204 01:06:39,996 --> 01:06:43,173 IT WAS A MAJORITY WHITE UNIVERSITY. 1205 01:06:43,216 --> 01:06:48,004 SOPHOMORE YEAR, WE STARTED BRINGING ON-CAMPUS STEP SHOWS. 1206 01:06:48,047 --> 01:06:50,354 AND THAT WAS MY FIRST EXPOSURE 1207 01:06:50,397 --> 01:06:53,139 TO BLACK FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES. 1208 01:06:53,183 --> 01:06:55,446 - [RHYTHMIC CLAPPING AND STEPPING] 1209 01:06:55,489 --> 01:06:57,709 - TINA: I WAS AMAZED AT THE WHOLE CULTURE. 1210 01:07:02,018 --> 01:07:04,890 - PHYLICIA: THE MANY TRADITIONS OF AFRICAN MOVEMENTS-- 1211 01:07:04,933 --> 01:07:08,024 THE CIRCULAR DANCE, THE CALL AND RESPONSE, 1212 01:07:08,067 --> 01:07:10,374 THE BODY AS INSTRUMENT-- 1213 01:07:10,417 --> 01:07:13,768 CONTRIBUTE AS PROGENITORS TO STEPPING. 1214 01:07:13,812 --> 01:07:19,035 - [RHYTHMIC CLAPPING AND STEPPING] 1215 01:07:19,078 --> 01:07:21,776 - I LOVED BEING STEP MASTER. 1216 01:07:21,820 --> 01:07:23,822 SHOUT-OUT TO MY CO-STEP MASTER, LUCRETIA. 1217 01:07:23,865 --> 01:07:26,172 THAT'S MY LINE SISTER. 1218 01:07:26,216 --> 01:07:28,000 - PHYLICIA: ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA 1219 01:07:28,044 --> 01:07:31,221 SINGED AND STROLLED ACROSS THE HOWARD CAMPUS TO PLEDGE IVY 1220 01:07:31,264 --> 01:07:33,571 AS EARLY AS ITS SECOND YEAR. 1221 01:07:33,614 --> 01:07:37,662 GRADUALLY, GREEK SINGS BECOME STEP SHOWS. 1222 01:07:37,705 --> 01:07:39,055 - ♪ 1223 01:07:39,098 --> 01:07:40,708 ♪ TELL 'EM WHERE MY LADIES AT ♪ 1224 01:07:40,752 --> 01:07:42,101 ♪ GOVEMBER 1225 01:07:42,145 --> 01:07:43,624 ♪ SHOW 'EM HOW THE LADIES WIN IT ♪ 1226 01:07:43,668 --> 01:07:45,496 ♪ GOVEMBER 1227 01:07:45,539 --> 01:07:47,628 ♪ SHOW 'EM WHO THE BOSS, SHOW 'EM WHO THE BOSS ♪ 1228 01:07:47,672 --> 01:07:49,456 ♪ 1229 01:07:49,500 --> 01:07:51,371 - DR. GROVER: THE FIRST WEEK THAT I WAS IN SCHOOL, 1230 01:07:51,415 --> 01:07:55,288 AKAS WERE OUT FRONT, DID A BEAUTIFUL STEP. 1231 01:07:55,332 --> 01:07:56,681 THEY SERENADED. 1232 01:07:56,724 --> 01:07:59,423 AND I SAID, WOW. 1233 01:07:59,466 --> 01:08:03,253 I JUST CAN'T EXPLAIN HOW MUCH FUN IT WAS. 1234 01:08:03,296 --> 01:08:05,342 - I REMEMBERED THOSE SONGS COMING OUT. 1235 01:08:05,385 --> 01:08:06,908 AND THE MOVES, YOU KNOW? 1236 01:08:06,952 --> 01:08:08,432 WE DID THE, YOU KNOW-- 1237 01:08:08,475 --> 01:08:10,825 ♪ WORK, WORK, FOR ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA ♪ 1238 01:08:10,869 --> 01:08:11,826 ♪ WORK, WORK 1239 01:08:11,870 --> 01:08:13,045 THAT ONE. 1240 01:08:13,089 --> 01:08:17,354 - [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1241 01:08:17,397 --> 01:08:18,920 - KAYLEN: BEYONCE DIDN'T GO TO COLLEGE, 1242 01:08:18,964 --> 01:08:20,574 BUT YOU CAN SEE WHAT SHE WAS INTERESTED IN. 1243 01:08:20,618 --> 01:08:24,274 YOU CAN SEE WHAT SHE ADMIRED ABOUT OUR CULTURE. 1244 01:08:24,317 --> 01:08:26,014 I ACTUALLY HAD SOME OF MY LINE SISTERS, 1245 01:08:26,058 --> 01:08:30,193 WE WERE ALL IN AN APARTMENT, AND WE WATCHED IT. 1246 01:08:30,236 --> 01:08:32,847 WHEN WE SAW IT, I WAS JUST LIKE, "OH, THAT'S US." 1247 01:08:32,891 --> 01:08:35,546 LIKE, THAT LITERALLY COULD HAVE BEEN US TWO WEEKS AGO. 1248 01:08:35,589 --> 01:08:39,637 - ♪ 1249 01:08:39,680 --> 01:08:43,641 - JOLENE: OUR LINE NAME WAS TWENTY IMAGES OF INNOVATION. 1250 01:08:43,684 --> 01:08:45,208 LOVED IT. 1251 01:08:45,251 --> 01:08:47,732 I ACTUALLY CAME UP WITH THE NAME OF OUR LINE. 1252 01:08:47,775 --> 01:08:49,255 - VP HARRIS: I HAD TWO LINE NAMES. 1253 01:08:49,299 --> 01:08:52,389 ONE WAS C CUBED--COOL, CALM, AND COLLECTED, 1254 01:08:52,432 --> 01:08:53,912 AND THE OTHER WAS PETER PAN, 1255 01:08:53,955 --> 01:08:55,783 BECAUSE I HAVE A LITTLE PINCHED EAR. 1256 01:08:55,827 --> 01:08:58,264 [LAUGHS] 1257 01:08:58,308 --> 01:09:00,136 AND THERE WERE 38 OF US. 1258 01:09:00,179 --> 01:09:04,096 THE 38 JEWELS OF IRIDESCENT SPLENDOR WAS OUR LINE NAME. 1259 01:09:04,140 --> 01:09:07,578 AND WE ARE ALL STILL VERY CLOSE TO THIS DAY. 1260 01:09:07,621 --> 01:09:09,667 - MRS. CLARK: MY LINE SISTERS, THE SEVEN US, 1261 01:09:09,710 --> 01:09:11,582 WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH: 1262 01:09:11,625 --> 01:09:15,542 MARRIAGES, BABIES, BIRTHS, FOR 33 YEARS. 1263 01:09:15,586 --> 01:09:19,503 AND WE ARE STILL UNITED AS ONE. 1264 01:09:19,546 --> 01:09:20,895 - THOSE DAYS-- AND I CAN TELL YOU, 1265 01:09:20,939 --> 01:09:23,637 I'VE HAD THEM VERY RECENTLY-- 1266 01:09:23,681 --> 01:09:26,162 WHERE I'M SITTING IN MY OFFICE OR DEALING WITH A SITUATION 1267 01:09:26,205 --> 01:09:27,293 AND FEEL VERY ISOLATED, 1268 01:09:27,337 --> 01:09:29,382 THE EXPERIENCES THAT I'M HAVING, 1269 01:09:29,426 --> 01:09:31,819 I CAN PROBABLY CALL ANYBODY UP IN THE SORORITY, 1270 01:09:31,863 --> 01:09:34,387 AND THEY'VE EITHER HAD THE SAME EXPERIENCE 1271 01:09:34,431 --> 01:09:38,086 OR CAN MATCH OR OUTMATCH THE EXPERIENCES THAT I'VE HAD. 1272 01:09:38,130 --> 01:09:41,220 THAT'S WHAT I'M ABLE TO DRAW ON. 1273 01:09:41,264 --> 01:09:43,091 - PHYLICIA: FROM THE VERY START, 1274 01:09:43,135 --> 01:09:46,834 AMERICA INSTITUTIONALIZED A SYSTEM OF RACISM AND SEXISM 1275 01:09:46,878 --> 01:09:51,012 THAT DEVALUED WOMEN OF COLOR AND THEIR LABOR. 1276 01:09:51,056 --> 01:09:53,798 BLACK WOMEN EARN ONLY 61 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR 1277 01:09:53,841 --> 01:09:56,583 COMPARED TO THEIR WHITE COUNTERPARTS. 1278 01:09:56,627 --> 01:09:58,150 - WE'RE THE MOST EDUCATED, 1279 01:09:58,194 --> 01:10:00,326 AND THEN WE DON'T GET COMPENSATED FOR IT. 1280 01:10:00,370 --> 01:10:03,242 WE HAVE BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF EVERYTHING. 1281 01:10:03,286 --> 01:10:06,811 BUT WE'VE ALSO NOT BEEN RESPECTED FOR BEING AT 1282 01:10:06,854 --> 01:10:09,901 THE FOREFRONT OF EVERYTHING. 1283 01:10:09,944 --> 01:10:11,424 - DESPITE ALL OF THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS 1284 01:10:11,468 --> 01:10:13,121 THAT BLACK WOMEN HAVE MADE, 1285 01:10:13,165 --> 01:10:16,821 ALL OF THE WAYS IN WHICH WE HAVE BEEN ON 1286 01:10:16,864 --> 01:10:21,347 THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY, I MEAN, FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS, 1287 01:10:21,391 --> 01:10:23,088 AND PEOPLE STILL DENIGRATE US. 1288 01:10:23,131 --> 01:10:25,046 THAT'S WHY WE HAVE SORORITIES. 1289 01:10:25,090 --> 01:10:28,789 - MY ROLE MODEL FOR BECOMING A PHYSICIAN WAS MARCUS WELBY. 1290 01:10:28,833 --> 01:10:31,009 - AHH. - AHH. 1291 01:10:31,052 --> 01:10:34,404 DO I HAVE TO GO TO A HOSPITAL? - OH, JUST OVERNIGHT. 1292 01:10:34,447 --> 01:10:36,362 - DR. HARRIS: HE WAS MY "GREY'S ANATOMY." 1293 01:10:36,406 --> 01:10:39,191 HE WAS A KINDLY WHITE TV DOCTOR. 1294 01:10:39,235 --> 01:10:40,888 - AND I APPRECIATE THAT. - COME ON, DOLL. 1295 01:10:40,932 --> 01:10:42,716 - IT STILL WAS IMPORTANT, THOUGH, 1296 01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:46,242 THAT I SAW AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN WHO WAS A PHYSICIAN. 1297 01:10:46,285 --> 01:10:48,331 IT STILL WAS A LONGING. 1298 01:10:48,374 --> 01:10:52,378 AND I ACHIEVED THAT THROUGH ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY, 1299 01:10:52,422 --> 01:10:55,555 BECAUSE I WAS CHOSEN AS A LEADERSHIP FELLOW. 1300 01:10:55,599 --> 01:10:58,210 AND DR. ROSALIND BARNES GRIFFIN 1301 01:10:58,254 --> 01:11:01,039 WAS ONE OF THE LEADERS OF THE RETREAT. 1302 01:11:01,082 --> 01:11:03,911 AND I SAW FOR THE FIRST TIME, IN THE FLESH, 1303 01:11:03,955 --> 01:11:05,957 SOMEONE THAT I COULD TALK TO: 1304 01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:08,960 AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN PHYSICIAN. 1305 01:11:09,003 --> 01:11:13,443 IF LITTLE GIRLS AREN'T ABLE TO SEE WHO THEY DARE TO DREAM 1306 01:11:13,486 --> 01:11:17,577 TO BE IN THE FLESH, HOPEFULLY THEY CAN SEE ME THROUGH THIS, 1307 01:11:17,621 --> 01:11:22,539 AND THEY CAN SAY, "ALL RIGHT, IT'S POSSIBLE." 1308 01:11:22,582 --> 01:11:24,280 - KAYLEN: I HAD THE HONOR OF BEING SELECTED 1309 01:11:24,323 --> 01:11:26,325 AS A LEADERSHIP FELLOW. 1310 01:11:26,369 --> 01:11:29,937 INTERACTING WITH CEOS AND CFOS, 1311 01:11:29,981 --> 01:11:34,202 BEING AROUND PEOPLE WHO WERE DOING WHAT I WANT TO DO IN LIFE. 1312 01:11:34,246 --> 01:11:36,814 WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT MYSELF, WHICH IS PROBABLY, UM, 1313 01:11:36,857 --> 01:11:38,990 THE HARDEST, IS IT'S OKAY TO BE VULNERABLE, 1314 01:11:39,033 --> 01:11:41,035 AND IT'S OKAY TO ASK QUESTIONS. 1315 01:11:41,079 --> 01:11:45,779 SEEING LEADERS TALK ABOUT THEIR FAILURES, THAT SPOKE VOLUMES. 1316 01:11:45,823 --> 01:11:47,781 - I'M A 2020 GRADUATE. 1317 01:11:47,825 --> 01:11:52,177 AND COVID-19 KIND OF TOOK AWAY MY SENIOR YEAR. 1318 01:11:52,220 --> 01:11:54,571 AS PRESIDENT OF THE MU PI CHAPTER, 1319 01:11:54,614 --> 01:11:58,705 MAKING PROGRAMMING THAT WILL IMPACT PEOPLE'S LIVES VIRTUALLY 1320 01:11:58,749 --> 01:12:02,230 WAS THE BIGGEST LEADERSHIP MOMENT FOR ME. 1321 01:12:02,274 --> 01:12:04,450 - REV. DR. HALE: AS YOUNG WOMEN ARE EXPOSED, 1322 01:12:04,494 --> 01:12:06,800 YOU FIND YOUR VOICE. 1323 01:12:06,844 --> 01:12:08,933 YOU LEARN HOW TO SPEAK UP, 1324 01:12:08,976 --> 01:12:11,936 TO SHARE YOUR OPINION OR TO DISAGREE, 1325 01:12:11,979 --> 01:12:16,767 AND THEN HEARING FROM OTHER BRILLIANT WOMEN... 1326 01:12:16,810 --> 01:12:18,595 IRON SHARPENS IRON. 1327 01:12:21,511 --> 01:12:24,644 - FIONNGHUALA: THE VERY FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN IN SPACE 1328 01:12:24,688 --> 01:12:27,778 IS A WOMAN OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA. 1329 01:12:27,821 --> 01:12:32,348 MAE C. JEMISON IS SOMEONE THAT I DEARLY LOOK UP TO. 1330 01:12:32,391 --> 01:12:34,959 VERY FEW PEOPLE GET TO BECOME ASTRONAUTS. 1331 01:12:35,002 --> 01:12:37,353 THAT IS, LIKE, MY ULTIMATE DREAM JOB. 1332 01:12:37,396 --> 01:12:38,789 - MAE: WHEN I WENT INTO SPACE, 1333 01:12:38,832 --> 01:12:41,052 I WANTED TO TAKE OTHER PEOPLE WITH ME. 1334 01:12:41,095 --> 01:12:44,751 I TOOK UP AN ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA FLAG. 1335 01:12:44,795 --> 01:12:49,103 - WE ACTUALLY HAVE A FLAG MAE JEMISON TOOK UP IN SPACE. 1336 01:12:49,147 --> 01:12:52,759 AND IT HANGS PROUDLY IN THE CORPORATE OFFICE. 1337 01:12:52,803 --> 01:12:55,719 - FIONNGHUALA: THERE IS A LEGACY OF CONTRIBUTION 1338 01:12:55,762 --> 01:12:59,549 THAT AKAS HAVE WITH NASA. 1339 01:12:59,592 --> 01:13:03,944 AND I'VE CARRIED THOSE TEACHINGS ON WITH ME AS A NASA DATANAUT. 1340 01:13:05,729 --> 01:13:07,339 - CISLYN: WE PRODUCE LEADERS. 1341 01:13:07,383 --> 01:13:09,036 AND IT'S A BIG DEAL FOR THE BLACK COMMUNITY. 1342 01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:13,867 AND IT'S A BIG DEAL FOR THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE. 1343 01:13:13,911 --> 01:13:16,130 THE STRIDES THAT WE'VE MADE WITHIN EVERY MOVEMENT 1344 01:13:16,174 --> 01:13:18,742 HAS AFFECTED ALL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 1345 01:13:19,612 --> 01:13:22,746 - NORMA: OUR GOAL IS SUPREME IN SERVICE. 1346 01:13:22,789 --> 01:13:25,444 WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT SUPREME SERVICE, 1347 01:13:25,488 --> 01:13:27,968 YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT REACHING DOWN, 1348 01:13:28,012 --> 01:13:29,753 MAKING LIFE BETTER 1349 01:13:30,884 --> 01:13:32,930 THAT WAS THE GOAL FROM THE BEGINNING. 1350 01:13:34,540 --> 01:13:37,456 - PHYLICIA: FOUNDER NORMA BOYD'S VISIT TO HOWARD UNIVERSITY 1351 01:13:37,500 --> 01:13:41,199 TO CELEBRATE HER 75 YEARS OF SORORITY MEMBERSHIP 1352 01:13:41,242 --> 01:13:44,942 WAS HER LAST VISIT TO THE CAMPUS. 1353 01:13:44,985 --> 01:13:47,553 IT WAS AN AUSPICIOUS PASSING OF THE TORCH 1354 01:13:47,597 --> 01:13:52,993 FROM ONE CAPITOL HILL FIGHTER AND HISTORY-MAKER TO ANOTHER. 1355 01:13:53,037 --> 01:13:54,908 - VP HARRIS: I MET NORMA BOYD. 1356 01:13:54,952 --> 01:14:00,000 AND SHE ACTUALLY GAVE ME HER BOOK, WHICH SHE SIGNED FOR ME. 1357 01:14:00,044 --> 01:14:03,569 NORMA BOYD WAS A FIGHTER AND A LEADER. 1358 01:14:03,613 --> 01:14:07,094 SHE DEDICATED HER LIFE TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF GIRLS, 1359 01:14:07,138 --> 01:14:09,096 AND WOMEN, AND CHILDREN. 1360 01:14:09,140 --> 01:14:13,449 SHE WAS CREATING THAT PLACE FOR HERSELF AND OTHERS. 1361 01:14:13,492 --> 01:14:15,015 - PHYLICIA: ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA 1362 01:14:15,059 --> 01:14:18,192 SENT ITS FIRST LETTER TO THE WHITE HOUSE IN 1921 1363 01:14:18,236 --> 01:14:21,935 DEMANDING THE PASSAGE OF AN ANTI-LYNCHING BILL. 1364 01:14:21,979 --> 01:14:25,765 NORMA BOYD FORMALIZED THE FIGHT WITH NON-PARTISAN COUNCIL, 1365 01:14:25,809 --> 01:14:27,245 CLIMBING THE STEPS OF CONGRESS 1366 01:14:27,288 --> 01:14:31,379 TO LEAD ON THE EFFORT FOR DECADES. 1367 01:14:31,423 --> 01:14:34,339 YET THE BILL NEVER PASSED. 1368 01:14:34,382 --> 01:14:39,779 A CENTURY LATER, THE FIGHT CONTINUES. 1369 01:14:39,823 --> 01:14:43,391 - THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS FAILED TO PASS ANTI-LYNCHING 1370 01:14:43,435 --> 01:14:48,745 LEGISLATION WHEN IT HAD AN OPPORTUNITY 200 TIMES. 1371 01:14:48,788 --> 01:14:52,836 WE NOW HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PASS THIS BILL AND TO OFFER 1372 01:14:52,879 --> 01:14:56,404 SOME LONG-OVERDUE JUSTICE AND RECOGNITION 1373 01:14:56,448 --> 01:14:59,233 TO THE VICTIMS OF LYNCHING AND THEIR FAMILIES. 1374 01:15:02,585 --> 01:15:04,935 THE JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF LYNCHING ACT 1375 01:15:04,978 --> 01:15:07,459 IS A HISTORIC PIECE OF LEGISLATION 1376 01:15:07,503 --> 01:15:09,896 THAT WOULD MAKE LYNCHING A FEDERAL CRIME 1377 01:15:09,940 --> 01:15:13,247 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY. 1378 01:15:16,120 --> 01:15:19,732 - IN A WORLD THAT WAS VERY CRUEL AND TRIED TO STRIP US 1379 01:15:19,776 --> 01:15:22,518 AND DIMINISH US... 1380 01:15:22,561 --> 01:15:25,390 ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA IS STILL THERE 1381 01:15:25,433 --> 01:15:29,829 AS A SOURCE OF ENCOURAGEMENT AND UPLIFTMENT AND EMPOWERMENT. 1382 01:15:29,873 --> 01:15:32,789 THAT'S WHY IT'S HERE 100 AND SOME YEARS LATER. 1383 01:15:34,660 --> 01:15:37,794 ORGANIZATIONS DON'T LAST THAT LONG, THEY DIE. 1384 01:15:37,837 --> 01:15:47,673 - ♪ 1385 01:15:47,717 --> 01:15:50,415 - HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES UNDERSTOOD THAT 1386 01:15:50,458 --> 01:15:55,072 EDUCATION WAS THE TOOL TO MOVE US IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, 1387 01:15:55,115 --> 01:15:57,422 TO EMPOWER OUR PEOPLE. 1388 01:15:57,465 --> 01:16:01,513 I LEARNED TO WORK IN THE SPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE AND THINK BIG. 1389 01:16:01,557 --> 01:16:03,733 - ♪ 1390 01:16:03,776 --> 01:16:05,735 ♪ IT'S NOT EXAGGERATED 1391 01:16:05,778 --> 01:16:07,258 ♪ I JUST HAD TO SAY IT 1392 01:16:07,301 --> 01:16:09,390 ♪ LOOK HOW WE GRADUATED 1393 01:16:09,434 --> 01:16:10,740 - DR. GLOVER: ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA 1394 01:16:10,783 --> 01:16:15,179 HAS A TREMENDOUS CONNECTION WITH HBCUS. 1395 01:16:15,222 --> 01:16:18,051 WE WERE FOUNDED ON THE CAMPUS OF AN HBCU, 1396 01:16:18,095 --> 01:16:20,401 AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY. 1397 01:16:20,445 --> 01:16:23,753 I GOT MY START AT HBCU TSU. 1398 01:16:23,796 --> 01:16:25,624 I'VE COME FULL CIRCLE. 1399 01:16:25,668 --> 01:16:28,975 I'M A PRESIDENT OF AN HBCU, TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY. 1400 01:16:30,847 --> 01:16:35,852 - GIVE ME A STATUS OF WHERE HBCUS ARE NOW. 1401 01:16:35,895 --> 01:16:39,420 - MY MAIN PROBLEM IS THAT WE HAVE TO SPEND THE FIRST PART 1402 01:16:39,464 --> 01:16:42,467 OF EVERY CONVERSATION JUSTIFYING WHO WE ARE, 1403 01:16:42,510 --> 01:16:44,556 DEFENDING WHY WE EXIST, 1404 01:16:44,600 --> 01:16:48,952 AND MAKE OTHERS SEE OF THE VALUE OF HBCUS. 1405 01:16:48,995 --> 01:16:50,344 - HBCUS ARE UNDERFUNDED. 1406 01:16:50,388 --> 01:16:51,781 THEY'VE ALWAYS BEEN UNDERFUNDED. 1407 01:16:51,824 --> 01:16:53,173 I ATTENDED A HBCU. 1408 01:16:53,217 --> 01:16:55,262 MY PARENTS, THEY'RE HBCU GRADUATES. 1409 01:16:55,306 --> 01:16:58,962 EIGHTY PERCENT OF BLACK DOCTORS WENT TO HBCUS. 1410 01:16:59,005 --> 01:17:01,051 AND SO THERE'S A PLACE FOR THEM. 1411 01:17:01,094 --> 01:17:02,792 - MY GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDFATHER, 1412 01:17:02,835 --> 01:17:05,272 HE WENT TO A TWO-YEAR HBCU. 1413 01:17:05,316 --> 01:17:08,145 HIS SON WENT TO THE SAME HBCU. 1414 01:17:08,188 --> 01:17:10,103 OUR MOM WENT TO TOUGALOO. 1415 01:17:10,147 --> 01:17:12,149 AND I'M AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY. 1416 01:17:12,192 --> 01:17:15,674 SO I'M TRYING TO KEEP THE HBCU HOPE ALIVE. 1417 01:17:15,718 --> 01:17:18,677 - JOYA: IN OUR CHAPTER, WE CAME FROM ALL DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS. 1418 01:17:18,721 --> 01:17:21,637 HAVING A CAMPUS WITH SUCH A STRONG AFRICAN AMERICAN 1419 01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:25,771 IDENTITY, THERE WAS SPACE FOR ME TO GROW AS AN INDIVIDUAL. 1420 01:17:25,815 --> 01:17:28,774 - DR. GLOVER: THERE'S A COMMITMENT ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA HAS 1421 01:17:28,818 --> 01:17:31,559 TO RAISE MONEY FOR HBCUS. 1422 01:17:31,603 --> 01:17:33,692 - MITZI: WHEN SHE TOLD US THAT WE WERE GOING TO RAISE 1423 01:17:33,736 --> 01:17:39,524 $1 MILLION IN A DAY, MY FIRST REACTION WAS, IS SHE CRAZY? 1424 01:17:39,567 --> 01:17:42,440 CAN WE REALLY DO THIS? 1425 01:17:42,483 --> 01:17:46,183 - THAT'S RIGHT: $1 MILLION IN ONE DAY. 1426 01:17:46,226 --> 01:17:48,533 THIS IS OUR HBCU IMPACT. 1427 01:17:48,576 --> 01:17:55,105 - ♪ 1428 01:17:55,148 --> 01:17:57,107 - [DINGING] 1429 01:17:57,150 --> 01:17:58,630 - ♪ 1430 01:17:58,674 --> 01:18:00,371 - MAKE THAT DONATION TODAY. 1431 01:18:00,414 --> 01:18:04,723 - ♪ 1432 01:18:04,767 --> 01:18:06,072 - [DINGING] 1433 01:18:06,116 --> 01:18:07,421 - [BELL RINGS] 1434 01:18:07,465 --> 01:18:15,995 - ♪ 1435 01:18:16,039 --> 01:18:19,129 - ALL: HBCU! 1436 01:18:19,172 --> 01:18:20,478 [CHEERING] 1437 01:18:20,521 --> 01:18:27,398 - ♪ 1438 01:18:27,441 --> 01:18:28,747 - SONYA: WE DID IT THREE TIMES. 1439 01:18:28,791 --> 01:18:30,575 AND WHAT WAS SIGNIFICANT THIS YEAR, 1440 01:18:30,618 --> 01:18:32,664 IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC, 1441 01:18:32,708 --> 01:18:34,579 WE RAISED MORE THIS YEAR 1442 01:18:34,622 --> 01:18:37,538 THAN WE DID THE FIRST TWO YEARS. 1443 01:18:37,582 --> 01:18:40,193 - WHEN WE MET IN CHICAGO, 1444 01:18:40,237 --> 01:18:43,457 AND THE FIRST DISBURSEMENT OF THOSE ENDOWMENTS, 1445 01:18:43,501 --> 01:18:47,679 THOSE UNIVERSITIES WERE SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS. 1446 01:18:47,723 --> 01:18:49,768 - ENDOWMENT REPRESENTS SUSTAINABILITY. 1447 01:18:49,812 --> 01:18:52,597 EVERY HBCU SHOULD HAVE AN ENDOWMENT 1448 01:18:52,640 --> 01:18:55,208 THAT HAS ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA IN ITS NAME. 1449 01:18:57,602 --> 01:18:58,864 - CYNTHIA: OUR MOTTO IS: 1450 01:18:58,908 --> 01:19:01,693 "PROVIDING SERVICE TO ALL MANKIND." 1451 01:19:01,737 --> 01:19:04,957 AND THAT'S WHAT WE LIVE BY AND THAT'S WHAT WE'LL DIE BY. 1452 01:19:05,001 --> 01:19:07,830 - BECOMING A MEMBER OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SOLIDIFIED 1453 01:19:07,873 --> 01:19:10,658 THAT CONNECTION WITH MY COMMUNITY. 1454 01:19:10,702 --> 01:19:13,531 THROUGH THE SORORITY, I WAS ABLE TO DO MORE SERVICE 1455 01:19:13,574 --> 01:19:15,185 FOR OUR COMMUNITIES 1456 01:19:15,228 --> 01:19:18,971 THAN I WOULD'VE DONE INDIVIDUALLY IN MY LIFETIME. 1457 01:19:19,015 --> 01:19:25,630 - PHYLICIA: 2008 MARKS THE CENTENNIAL FOUNDING OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA. 1458 01:19:25,673 --> 01:19:27,197 ALTHOUGH NONE OF THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS 1459 01:19:27,240 --> 01:19:30,069 LIVED TO SEE THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS, 1460 01:19:30,113 --> 01:19:33,551 THEIR SPIRITS WERE EVER PRESENT. 1461 01:19:33,594 --> 01:19:36,032 - CYNTHIA: THE FOUNDERS WOULD BE VERY PROUD. 1462 01:19:36,075 --> 01:19:38,991 THEY HAD A VISION, BUT I'M NOT SURE THEY THOUGHT 1463 01:19:39,035 --> 01:19:42,212 THAT WE WOULD HAVE OVER 300,000 MEMBERS 1464 01:19:42,255 --> 01:19:45,824 AND 1,026 CHAPTERS. 1465 01:19:45,868 --> 01:19:49,262 - [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1466 01:19:49,306 --> 01:19:51,395 - PHYLICIA: FOR THE AKA UNITY MARCH, 1467 01:19:51,438 --> 01:19:55,355 30,000 BLACK GREEKS MARCHED DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, 1468 01:19:55,399 --> 01:19:58,489 CLOSED ONLY ONCE BEFORE FOR THE POPE. 1469 01:19:58,532 --> 01:20:02,145 - [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1470 01:20:02,188 --> 01:20:07,977 - ♪ 1471 01:20:08,020 --> 01:20:09,456 - PHYLICIA: THE BLACK GREEK LETTER 1472 01:20:09,500 --> 01:20:11,850 ORGANIZATIONS' TOGETHERNESS BEGAN FORMALLY 1473 01:20:11,894 --> 01:20:14,853 DURING THE GREAT MIGRATION IN 1930, 1474 01:20:14,897 --> 01:20:16,637 WHEN THE NINE ORGANIZATIONS FORMED 1475 01:20:16,681 --> 01:20:19,597 THE NATIONAL PAN-HELLENIC COUNCIL, 1476 01:20:19,640 --> 01:20:24,384 LOVINGLY REFERRED TO AS THE DIVINE NINE. 1477 01:20:24,428 --> 01:20:28,432 THOUGH RARELY PORTRAYED, BLACK GREEKS JOINED FORCES TO SUPPORT 1478 01:20:28,475 --> 01:20:32,479 MANY CAUSES AND EACH OTHER. 1479 01:20:32,523 --> 01:20:36,396 - VP HARRIS: FAMILY IS MY BELOVED ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA, 1480 01:20:36,440 --> 01:20:40,879 OUR DIVINE NINE, AND MY HBCU BROTHERS AND SISTERS. 1481 01:20:40,923 --> 01:20:43,316 - EVEN THOUGH DR. GLOVER IS AN AKA, 1482 01:20:43,360 --> 01:20:47,146 SHE WANTED TO BE SURE THAT ALL FOUR SORORITIES WERE REPRESENTED 1483 01:20:47,190 --> 01:20:49,061 IN WISCONSIN TONIGHT. 1484 01:20:49,105 --> 01:20:52,195 THERE IS ONE AKA WE WEREN'T SURE COULD JOIN US 1485 01:20:52,238 --> 01:20:54,153 BECAUSE SHE'S BEEN A LITTLE BUSY. 1486 01:20:54,197 --> 01:20:56,895 BUT I JUST HEARD SHE'S HERE. 1487 01:20:56,939 --> 01:21:00,203 WELCOME, SENATOR KAMALA HARRIS. 1488 01:21:00,246 --> 01:21:01,813 - [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1489 01:21:01,857 --> 01:21:03,510 - OPRAH: SHE'S HERE! 1490 01:21:03,554 --> 01:21:04,903 - HI, EVERYBODY. 1491 01:21:04,947 --> 01:21:06,644 [LAUGHS] 1492 01:21:06,687 --> 01:21:09,603 - [CROWD CHEERING] 1493 01:21:09,647 --> 01:21:14,695 - [HORNS HONKING] 1494 01:21:14,739 --> 01:21:17,873 - HER VICTORY REPRESENTS A HANDFUL OF FIRSTS. 1495 01:21:17,916 --> 01:21:19,309 THE FIRST WOMAN. 1496 01:21:19,352 --> 01:21:20,788 THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN. 1497 01:21:20,832 --> 01:21:22,878 THE FIRST INDIAN-AMERICAN WOMAN. 1498 01:21:22,921 --> 01:21:25,228 THE FIRST DAUGHTER OF IMMIGRANTS. 1499 01:21:25,271 --> 01:21:28,187 - ♪ 1500 01:21:28,231 --> 01:21:29,972 - AKA DAY! 1501 01:21:30,015 --> 01:21:32,626 YEAH! 1502 01:21:32,670 --> 01:21:36,674 - YOUR REACTION AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE AKAS TO ONE OF YOUR OWN, 1503 01:21:36,717 --> 01:21:38,197 ONE OF YOUR SORORS, 1504 01:21:38,241 --> 01:21:40,896 BECOMING VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 1505 01:21:40,939 --> 01:21:46,031 - OH, IT WAS A MOMENT OF TREMENDOUS PRIDE. 1506 01:21:46,075 --> 01:21:48,599 - JUDGE WHITNER: PEOPLE ARE AMAZED THAT OUR SISTERHOOD 1507 01:21:48,642 --> 01:21:51,428 IS SO STRONG THAT WE HAVE BEEN CALLED HER SECRET WEAPON. 1508 01:21:51,471 --> 01:21:53,996 WE'RE NOT A SECRET! 1509 01:21:54,039 --> 01:21:56,433 - VP HARRIS: I HAVE TRAVELED OUR COUNTRY. 1510 01:21:56,476 --> 01:21:59,871 AND I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW INVARIABLY, 1511 01:21:59,915 --> 01:22:03,614 SOMEBODY WILL BE STANDING OUTSIDE THE ROOM OR GREETING ME 1512 01:22:03,657 --> 01:22:07,096 IN THAT GLORIOUS PINK AND GREEN. 1513 01:22:07,139 --> 01:22:08,967 IT'S SUCH A SPECIAL EXPERIENCE 1514 01:22:09,011 --> 01:22:13,232 THAT I WISH FOR EVERY GIRL AND YOUNG WOMAN TO KNOW 1515 01:22:13,276 --> 01:22:14,842 THAT YOU ARE PART OF A SISTERHOOD 1516 01:22:14,886 --> 01:22:18,629 AND TO HAVE THAT REINFORCED. 1517 01:22:18,672 --> 01:22:20,326 - TRACY: I LOOK AT THESE YOUNG LADIES NOW 1518 01:22:20,370 --> 01:22:25,766 AND I'M INSPIRED BY HOW COURAGEOUS THEY ARE. 1519 01:22:25,810 --> 01:22:30,946 THEY WANT TO CONTINUE THIS WONDERFUL LEGACY. 1520 01:22:30,989 --> 01:22:34,645 THEY HAVE SHOWN ME HOW TO GROW INTO THIS SISTERHOOD 1521 01:22:34,688 --> 01:22:39,911 EVEN AFTER 30-SOMETHING YEARS OF BEING IN THE ORGANIZATION. 1522 01:22:39,955 --> 01:22:42,696 - PHYLICIA: THE WORDS OF THE SORORITY HYMN RING AS TRUE TODAY 1523 01:22:42,740 --> 01:22:47,353 AS THEY DID IN 1935, WHEN IT WAS INTRODUCED. 1524 01:22:47,397 --> 01:22:50,052 - I'M A FOURTH-GENERATION AKA. 1525 01:22:50,095 --> 01:22:51,618 WHEN I SING THE HYMN, 1526 01:22:51,662 --> 01:22:54,752 I JUST THINK ABOUT THE HISTORY. 1527 01:22:54,795 --> 01:22:58,364 IT MIGHT SOUND A LITTLE CRAZY, BUT I HONESTLY FEEL LIKE 1528 01:22:58,408 --> 01:23:01,019 MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER, JOANNA MARY BERRY SHIELDS, 1529 01:23:01,063 --> 01:23:03,804 ALWAYS AROUND ME, LIKE, GUIDING ME. 1530 01:23:03,848 --> 01:23:05,589 IT'S JUST AN HONOR. 1531 01:23:05,632 --> 01:23:08,287 AND YOU REALLY FEEL IT IN YOUR SOUL WHEN YOU SING IT. 1532 01:23:09,941 --> 01:23:12,900 - WHEN I SING THE HYMN, IT FEELS LIKE I'M IN CHURCH, ACTUALLY. 1533 01:23:12,944 --> 01:23:14,728 WHEN WE SING THOSE WORDS, I FEEL THEM. 1534 01:23:14,772 --> 01:23:16,730 I FELT THOSE WORDS. LIKE, THOSE WORDS, 1535 01:23:16,774 --> 01:23:18,297 "THERE IS NO OTHER LIKE OUR SISTERHOOD, 1536 01:23:18,341 --> 01:23:20,299 ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA." 1537 01:23:20,343 --> 01:23:22,084 - I FEEL LIKE I KNEW THE HYMN 1538 01:23:22,127 --> 01:23:24,608 ABSOLUTELY BEFORE I WAS A MEMBER. 1539 01:23:24,651 --> 01:23:27,132 MY MOM WAS A MEMBER OF THE ALPHA OMEGA CHAPTER IN DETROIT 1540 01:23:27,176 --> 01:23:29,047 WHEN I WAS A YOUNG GIRL. 1541 01:23:29,091 --> 01:23:31,571 THEY WOULD HAVE THEIR MEETINGS. AND OF COURSE IT WAS PRIVATE. 1542 01:23:31,615 --> 01:23:33,791 THEY HAD THE CLOSED DOORS AND EVERYTHING. 1543 01:23:33,834 --> 01:23:36,185 BUT WE ALWAYS KNEW WHEN THE MEETING WAS ABOUT TO END, 1544 01:23:36,228 --> 01:23:38,317 BECAUSE WE'D HEAR THE SONG. 1545 01:23:38,361 --> 01:23:40,841 SO YOU WANT ME TO SING IT? 1546 01:23:40,885 --> 01:23:43,975 ♪ OH, ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA 1547 01:23:44,019 --> 01:23:47,848 ♪ DEAR ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA 1548 01:23:47,892 --> 01:23:52,592 - ♪ HEARTS THAT ARE LOYAL AND HEARTS THAT ARE TRUE ♪ 1549 01:23:52,636 --> 01:23:55,639 - ♪ BY MERIT AND CULTURE 1550 01:23:55,682 --> 01:23:59,077 ♪ WE STRIVE AND WE DO 1551 01:23:59,121 --> 01:24:04,082 - ♪ THINGS THAT ARE WORTHWHILE ♪ 1552 01:24:04,126 --> 01:24:09,131 - ♪ AND WITH A SMILE 1553 01:24:09,174 --> 01:24:14,266 - ♪ WE HELP EACH OTHER, FOR WE KNOW THERE'S NO OTHER ♪ 1554 01:24:14,310 --> 01:24:16,486 - ♪ LIKE OUR SISTERHOOD 1555 01:24:16,529 --> 01:24:20,664 ♪ ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA ♪♪ 1556 01:24:22,144 --> 01:24:29,107 - ♪ 1557 01:24:29,151 --> 01:24:31,457 - SCIERRA: WHEN I WALK INTO RANKIN HALL 1558 01:24:31,501 --> 01:24:34,330 AND SEE THE STAINED-GLASS WINDOW, 1559 01:24:34,373 --> 01:24:39,857 IT'S A REMINDER THAT THE LEGACY LIVES ON. 1560 01:24:39,900 --> 01:24:45,254 IT'S A GLASS WINDOW DEDICATED TO WOMEN WHO HAVE, IN ESSENCE, 1561 01:24:45,297 --> 01:24:48,387 BROKEN THE GLASS CEILING 1562 01:24:48,431 --> 01:24:51,129 AND NOW HAVE THIS MEMORY 1563 01:24:51,173 --> 01:24:55,090 THAT LIVES AND LIVES FOR THE GENERATIONS TO FOLLOWS. 1564 01:24:55,133 --> 01:24:56,874 IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. 1565 01:24:58,093 --> 01:24:59,572 IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. 1566 01:24:59,616 --> 01:25:02,184 - [CHEERING] - [HORNS HONKING] 1567 01:25:02,227 --> 01:25:05,187 - WHILE I MAY BE THE FIRST WOMAN IN THIS OFFICE, 1568 01:25:05,230 --> 01:25:06,927 I WILL NOT BE THE LAST. 1569 01:25:06,971 --> 01:25:09,974 - [CHEERING] - [HORNS HONKING] 1570 01:25:10,017 --> 01:25:15,153 - VP HARRIS: EVERY LITTLE GIRL WATCHING TONIGHT SEES THAT THIS 1571 01:25:15,197 --> 01:25:18,635 IS A COUNTRY OF POSSIBILITIES. 1572 01:25:18,678 --> 01:25:21,072 - DR. GLOVER: IN 1908, NINE YOUNG LADIES, 1573 01:25:21,116 --> 01:25:22,987 SOME OF THEM WERE STILL TEENAGERS, 1574 01:25:23,030 --> 01:25:25,642 STARTED ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA. 1575 01:25:25,685 --> 01:25:31,126 AND WE CREATED A NETWORK FOR BLACK WOMEN OF LIKE MINDS. 1576 01:25:31,169 --> 01:25:33,911 - PHYLICIA: THE NATION'S FIRST BLACK GREEK LETTER SORORITY 1577 01:25:33,954 --> 01:25:37,262 IS A SISTERHOOD OF BLACK WOMEN WHO BROKE BARRIERS 1578 01:25:37,306 --> 01:25:40,657 AND CREATED A VISION FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR WORLD, 1579 01:25:40,700 --> 01:25:43,355 CHALLENGING THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, 1580 01:25:43,399 --> 01:25:48,578 AND EDUCATIONAL STATUS QUO FOR ALL BLACK PEOPLE. 1581 01:25:48,621 --> 01:25:51,624 ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY, INCORPORATED. 1582 01:25:55,628 --> 01:26:05,638 - ♪ 1583 01:26:25,658 --> 01:26:35,668 ♪ 1584 01:26:36,669 --> 01:26:38,976 ♪ Y'ALL WANT THIS PARTY STARTED, RIGHT? ♪ 1585 01:26:40,847 --> 01:26:44,938 ♪ Y'ALL WANT THIS PARTY STARTED QUICKLY, RIGHT? ♪ 1586 01:26:44,982 --> 01:26:46,897 ♪ SET IT OFF, I SUGGEST Y'ALL ♪ 1587 01:26:46,940 --> 01:26:49,116 ♪ SET IT OFF, I SUGGEST Y'ALL 1588 01:26:49,160 --> 01:26:51,206 ♪ SET IT OFF, SET IT OFF 1589 01:26:51,249 --> 01:26:53,295 ♪ SET IT OFF 1590 01:26:53,338 --> 01:26:55,427 ♪ SET IT OFF ON THE LEFT, Y'ALL ♪ 1591 01:26:55,471 --> 01:26:57,473 ♪ SET IT OFF ON THE RIGHT, Y'ALL ♪ 1592 01:26:57,516 --> 01:26:59,083 ♪ SET IT OFF 1593 01:26:59,126 --> 01:27:02,304 ♪ COME ON, LET'S SET IT OFF 1594 01:27:02,347 --> 01:27:06,569 ♪ Y'ALL WANT THIS PARTY STARTED QUICKLY, RIGHT? ♪ 1595 01:27:06,612 --> 01:27:08,614 ♪ SET IT OFF, SET IT OFF, SET IT OFF ♪ 1596 01:27:08,658 --> 01:27:10,442 ♪ SET, SET, SET, SET IT OFF 1597 01:27:10,486 --> 01:27:12,531 ♪ SET IT OFF, I SUGGEST Y'ALL ♪ 1598 01:27:12,575 --> 01:27:14,533 ♪ SET IT OFF, I SUGGEST Y'ALL 1599 01:27:14,577 --> 01:27:16,143 ♪ SET IT OFF 1600 01:27:16,187 --> 01:27:19,582 ♪ COME ON, LET'S SET IT OFF 1601 01:27:19,625 --> 01:27:21,758 ♪ ON THE LEFT-- START IT ♪ 1602 01:27:21,801 --> 01:27:23,934 ♪ ON THE RIGHT-- START IT ♪ 1603 01:27:23,977 --> 01:27:28,068 ♪ ON THE LEFT, I SUGGEST, WHILE WE'RE LEFT ♪ 1604 01:27:28,112 --> 01:27:30,288 ♪ ON THE LEFT-- START IT ♪ 1605 01:27:30,332 --> 01:27:32,595 ♪ ON THE RIGHT-- START IT ♪ 1606 01:27:32,638 --> 01:27:36,251 ♪ ON THE LEFT, I SUGGEST, WHILE WE'RE LEFT ♪ 1607 01:27:36,294 --> 01:27:38,383 ♪ SET IT OFF, I SUGGEST Y'ALL ♪ 1608 01:27:38,427 --> 01:27:40,298 ♪ SET IT OFF, I SUGGEST Y'ALL 1609 01:27:40,342 --> 01:27:41,908 ♪ SET IT OFF 1610 01:27:41,952 --> 01:27:44,868 ♪ COME ON, LET'S SET IT OFF 1611 01:27:44,911 --> 01:27:46,957 ♪ SET IT OFF ON THE LEFT, Y'ALL ♪ 1612 01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:49,089 ♪ SET IT OFF ON THE RIGHT, Y'ALL ♪ 1613 01:27:49,133 --> 01:27:50,221 ♪ SET IT OFF 1614 01:27:50,265 --> 01:27:54,007 ♪ 1615 01:27:54,051 --> 01:27:55,748 ♪ FROM START TO FLAME 1616 01:27:55,792 --> 01:27:58,055 ♪ 1617 01:27:58,098 --> 01:28:02,407 ♪ OH, A LITTLE FLAME CAN 1618 01:28:02,451 --> 01:28:04,801 ♪ DESIRE'S BURNING 1619 01:28:04,844 --> 01:28:06,324 ♪ 1620 01:28:06,368 --> 01:28:08,326 ♪ GIVE US THIS DAY 1621 01:28:08,370 --> 01:28:10,807 ♪ 1622 01:28:10,850 --> 01:28:13,505 ♪ YOU WANT TO PARTY 1623 01:28:13,549 --> 01:28:15,202 ♪ 1624 01:28:15,246 --> 01:28:17,944 ♪ COME ON, YOU GOT ME 1625 01:28:17,988 --> 01:28:19,511 ♪ 1626 01:28:19,555 --> 01:28:22,166 ♪ OUT ON THE DANCE FLOOR 1627 01:28:22,209 --> 01:28:23,385 ♪ 1628 01:28:23,428 --> 01:28:25,561 ♪ WE'RE ALL OUT TO PLAY 1629 01:28:25,604 --> 01:28:28,128 ♪ 1630 01:28:28,172 --> 01:28:30,653 ♪ WE'LL SHARE OUR SECRETS 1631 01:28:30,696 --> 01:28:32,350 ♪ 1632 01:28:32,394 --> 01:28:35,135 ♪ LOVE TALK IS SPREADING 1633 01:28:35,179 --> 01:28:36,659 ♪ 1634 01:28:36,702 --> 01:28:39,139 ♪ A LITTLE LOVE IS FORMED 1635 01:28:39,183 --> 01:28:40,619 ♪ 1636 01:28:40,663 --> 01:28:42,578 ♪ GIVE US THIS DAY 1637 01:28:42,621 --> 01:28:45,407 ♪ 1638 01:28:45,450 --> 01:28:47,365 ♪ TO SHOW OUR GRATITUDE 1639 01:28:47,409 --> 01:28:49,498 ♪ 1640 01:28:49,541 --> 01:28:51,761 ♪ TO CHANGE OUR ATTITUDES 1641 01:28:51,804 --> 01:28:53,850 ♪ 1642 01:28:53,893 --> 01:28:57,636 ♪ COME ON, WE'RE MANY 1643 01:28:57,680 --> 01:29:01,901 ♪ WITH ALL THAT WE FEEL, THE TIME IS IDEAL ♪ 1644 01:29:01,945 --> 01:29:04,339 ♪ TO SET IT OFF, I SUGGEST Y'ALL ♪ 1645 01:29:04,382 --> 01:29:06,384 ♪ SET IT OFF, I SUGGEST Y'ALL 1646 01:29:06,428 --> 01:29:07,907 ♪ SET IT OFF 1647 01:29:07,951 --> 01:29:10,693 ♪ COME ON, LET'S SET IT OFF 1648 01:29:10,736 --> 01:29:12,956 ♪ SET IT OFF ON THE LEFT, Y'ALL ♪ 1649 01:29:12,999 --> 01:29:15,045 ♪ SET IT OFF ON THE RIGHT, Y'ALL ♪ 1650 01:29:15,088 --> 01:29:16,525 ♪ SET IT OFF 1651 01:29:16,568 --> 01:29:19,310 ♪ COME ON, LET'S SET IT OFF 1652 01:29:19,354 --> 01:29:20,485 ♪ SET IT OFF 1653 01:29:20,529 --> 01:29:23,575 ♪ 1654 01:29:23,619 --> 01:29:24,968 ♪ SET IT OFF 1655 01:29:25,011 --> 01:29:27,884 ♪ 1656 01:29:27,927 --> 01:29:29,407 ♪ SET IT OFF 1657 01:29:29,451 --> 01:29:32,192 ♪ 1658 01:29:32,236 --> 01:29:33,672 ♪ SET IT OFF 1659 01:29:33,716 --> 01:29:35,413 ♪ 1660 01:29:35,457 --> 01:29:36,936 - YEAH, YEAH, IT FEELS LIKE 1661 01:29:36,980 --> 01:29:38,895 SOMETHING'S ABOUT TO JUMP OFF IN HERE. 1662 01:29:38,938 --> 01:29:40,766 - ♪ 1663 01:29:40,810 --> 01:29:42,551 ♪ SET IT OFF 1664 01:29:42,594 --> 01:29:45,075 - UH-HUH, UH-HUH, GET TO IT NOW, GET TO IT! 1665 01:29:45,118 --> 01:29:47,904 - ♪ 1666 01:29:47,947 --> 01:29:50,994 - YEAH, YEAH, LET'S SMOKE THIS ONE OUT NOW, LET'S SMOKE IT OUT! 1667 01:29:51,037 --> 01:29:57,957 - ♪ 1668 01:29:58,001 --> 01:29:59,350 ♪ SET IT OFF 1669 01:29:59,394 --> 01:30:06,575 ♪ 1670 01:30:06,618 --> 01:30:08,098 ♪ SET IT OFF 1671 01:30:08,141 --> 01:30:15,192 ♪ 1672 01:30:15,235 --> 01:30:16,541 ♪ SET IT OFF 1673 01:30:16,585 --> 01:30:23,766 ♪ 1674 01:30:23,809 --> 01:30:25,289 ♪ SET IT OFF 1675 01:30:25,332 --> 01:30:32,383 ♪ 1676 01:30:32,427 --> 01:30:33,776 ♪ SET IT OFF 1677 01:30:33,819 --> 01:30:43,829 ♪ 1678 01:30:51,489 --> 01:31:01,456 ♪ 1679 01:31:06,548 --> 01:31:09,986 ♪♪♪