Her Truth and Service: Lucy Diggs Slowe in Her Own Words - Paperbackby Lucy Diggs Slowe (Author), Amy Yeboah Quarkume (Editor) Lucy Diggs Slowe (1885 1937) was one of the most remarkable and accomplished figures in the history of Black women's higher education. She was a builder of institutions, organizing the first historically Black sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, while a student at Howard University in 1908; establishing the first junior high school for Black students in Washington, D. C.; and founding as well as