A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of
                              BLACK STUDIES RESEARCH SOURCES
                         Microfilms from Major Archival and Manuscript Collections
                                   General Editors:
       The                John H. Bracey, Jr., Sharon Harley, and August Meier
        The
             Ivy
             Ivy
                       Leaf
                       Leaf
                 1921–1998
        A Chronicle of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
                UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS OF AMERICA
           A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of
                    BLACK STUDIES RESEARCH SOURCES
             Microfilms from Major Archival and Manuscript Collections
                             General Editors:
               John H. Bracey, Jr., Sharon Harley, and August Meier
                          The Ivy Leaf,
                            1921–1998
             A Chronicle of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
                              Consulting Editor
                            Gloria Harper Dickinson
                             Project Coordinator
                             Randolph H. Boehm
                             Guide Compiled by
                               Daniel Lewis
                              Martha N. Miers
                             A microfilm project of
                        UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS OF AMERICA
                              An Imprint of CIS
                     4520 East-West Highway • Bethesda, MD 20814-3389
               The materials in this microform publication come from The Ivy Leaf, the official
               magazine of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
               The ISSN assigned to the print version of The Ivy Leaf is 0021-3276.
               ISBN 1-55655-773-6 (printed guide only)
                   Copyright © 2000 by University Publications of America.
                           All rights reserved.
                           ISBN 1-55655-773-6.
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                                                             TABLE OF CONTENTS
                               Introduction ...........................................................................................................................       v
                               Scope and Content Note ......................................................................................................               xiii
                               Source Note...........................................................................................................................     xvii
                               Editorial Note.........................................................................................................................    xvii
                               Abbreviations ........................................................................................................................      xix
                               State Abbreviations ................................................................................................................        xxi
                               Reel Index
                                   Reel 1
                                       1921–December 1932 (Vol. 1, No. 1–Vol. 10, No. 4) .......................................................                             1
                                   Reel 2
                                       March 1933–December 1939 (Vol. 11, No. 1–Vol. 17, No. 4) ..........................................                                    7
                                   Reel 3
                                       March 1940–December 1948 (Vol. 18, No. 1–Vol. 26, No. 4) ..........................................                                  14
                                   Reel 4
                                       March 1949–June 1954 (Vol. 27, No. 1–Vol. 32, No. 2) ...................................................                             27
                                   Reel 5
                                       September 1954–June 1959 (Vol. 32, No. 3–Vol. 37, No. 2)............................................                                 36
                                   Reel 6
                                       September 1959–December 1965 (Vol. 37, No. 3–Vol. 41, No. 4)...................................                                      43
                                   Reel 7
                                       February/March 1966–November 1971 (Vol. 42, No. 1–Vol. 47, No. 4) ...........................                                        52
                                   Reel 8
                                       February 1972–Summer 1977 (Vol. 48, No. 1–Vol. 53, No. 2).........................................                                   61
                                   Reel 9
                                       Fall 1977–Winter 1980 (Vol. 53, No. 3–Vol. 57, No. 4).....................................................                           71
                                   Reel 10
                                       Spring 1981–Spring 1984 (Vol. 58, No. 1–Vol. 61, No. 1) ................................................                             77
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