Julia Evangeline Brooks

Julia Evangeline Brooks (June, 1882 – November 24, 1948) was an incorporator of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.

Early life
Julia was one of ten children born to Walt Henderson Brooks and Eva Holmes Brooks in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her father, a minister and former slave, graduated from Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania in 1873 with a theology degree. During her youth, Julia attended public schools in Washington, D.C.. Julia was enrolled at Sumner Magruder Elementary School and the M. Street High School. After graduating high school, Julia enrolled in Miner Normal School, a training school for teachers, where she taught elementary students.

College life and incorporation of Alpha Kappa Alpha
Julia graduated from Howard University in 1908 with a Bachelor of Arts. When hearing plans of seven members desiring to cede from Alpha Kappa Alpha in order to form a new sorority, Nellie Quander contacted graduate members, including Russell, in order to stop the proposals. Early on Brooks was in favor of incorporation. As a result, Brooks, Quander, Norma Boyd, Nellie Pratt Russell, Minnie B. Smith and Ethel Jones Mowbray incorporated Alpha Kappa Alpha on January 29, 1913. The dissenters formed another sorority entitled, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She was listed, as well as the other incorporators, as a part of article four of the sorority's Certificate of Incorporation. After incorporation, Julia served as treasurer of the directorate until 1923.

Later life
After graduation in 1916, she taught Spanish and English at Washington D.C.'s Dunbar High School for six years. Brooks attended Columbia University and received her Master of Arts in 1928. For almost twenty-four years beginning in 1922, Julia was an assistant principal at Danbury High School. She was later promoted as a dean of girls. She also assisted her nieces and nephews with accomplishing a college education by tutoring and contributing financially. She was a charter member of Xi Omega chapter in Washington, D.C. in 1923. Julia also wrote an early edition of the sorority's history, which was given at the 1923 Boulèe in Baltimore, Maryland, as well as spoken at Founders' Day at Xi Omega on January 30, 1924. Julia died on November 24, 1948.