The Mississippi Health Project was a project that was started by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated to help with the devastating health problems/conditions of African Americans in the rural south. The goal of the project was to be able to bring primary health care to those that could not afford it regularly. Dr.Ida Louis Jackson, who was the founder of the Rho Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated at the University of California Berkley, proposed the idea of the Mississippi Health Project. She came up with this project after she saw the poor conditions of the rural southern African Americans. After proposing her proposal, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated fully launched the project by granting her with 2500 dollars.