Marjorie Hill

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| name = Marjorie Hill

| image = M_Hill.jpg

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| birth_name = Marjarie Arizona Hill

| birth_date = May 1886

| birth_place = Arizona, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1910|12|17|1886|5}}

| death_place = Washington, D.C., U.S.

| burial_place = Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)

| education = Howard University

| occupation = Teacher

| known_for = Founding Alpha Kappa Alpha

| parents =

}}

Marjorie Arizona Hill (May 1886 – December 17, 1910) was an American educator and one of the nine founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Howard University.{{Cite book |last=Ross |first=Lawrence C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JtuJDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Marjorie+Hill%22+-wikipedia&pg=PT280 |title=The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities |date=2019-08-27 |publisher=Kensington Books |isbn=978-1-4967-2888-3 |page=269 |language=en |via=Google Books}}{{Cite news |date=1911-12-17 |title=Hill |pages=5 |work=Evening Star |location=Washington, D.C. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-star-hill/129159375/ |access-date=2023-07-30 |via=Newspapers.com}} Alpha Kappa Alpha was the first sorority to be founded by African-American women.

Early life

Hill was born in Arizona in 1886. Her parents were Florence and George Hill.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}} She lived in Washington, D.C. in her early life.United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.[https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=7602&h=33898783&tid=&pid=&queryId=a7788a4afd80e19aa0819e4ffc52e040&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Tnu91&_phstart=successSource] She attended M Street High School, graduating in 1904 alongside Margaret Flagg Holmes.{{Cite news |date=1904-06-22 |title=School Promotions |pages=12 |work=Evening Star |location=Washington, D.C. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-star/105106801/ |access-date=2023-07-30 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Hill enrolled the School of Arts and Sciences at Howard University in the fall of 1904. On January 15, 1908, she and Holmes became founding members of Alpha Kappa Alpha, along with seven other female students. Hill was noted for her involvement in the sorority's day-to-day operations.

She graduated from Howard in 1908 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in pedegogy and political science.{{Cite news |date=1908-05-27 |title=Commencement Exercises (Howard Is Growing)) |pages=2 |work=Evening Star |location=Washington, D.C. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-star-commencement-exercises-how/129160303/ |access-date=2023-07-30 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Career

In October 1908, Hall became a teacher at Morgan College in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Personal life

Hill moved from Washington, D.C. to Lynchburg, Virginia in October 1908. In 1909, she visited the Howard University campus with her sorority sister, Lucy Diggs Stowe.

Hill died on December 17, 1910.{{Cite news |date=1910-12-20 |title=Deaths Reported |pages=2 |work=The Washington Herald |location=Washington, D.C. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-washington-herald-deaths-reported/129160643/ |access-date=2023-07-30 |via=Newspapers.com}} She was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Washington D.C.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=1 July 2022 |title='Hallowed Ground': Sororities Work to Preserve Black DC Cemetery |url=https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/hallowed-ground-sororities-work-to-preserve-black-dc-cemetery/3090335/ |access-date=2023-02-01 |website=NBC4 Washington |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Nortables |url=https://woodlawndc.org/notables |access-date=2023-07-30 |website=Woodlawn Cemetery |language=en-US}}

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20080805040513/http://www.aka1908.com/past/ Honoring the Past: Alpha Kappa Alpha Founders]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927194110/http://aka1908.com/centennial/pdf/founders_pdf.pdf Centennial Celebration: Founders]

Category:1886 births

Category:1909 deaths

Category:20th-century African-American educators

Category:20th-century American women educators

Category:20th-century American educators

Category:Alpha Kappa Alpha founders

Category:Howard University alumni

Category:Schoolteachers from Virginia