Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. was founded January 16, 1920, at Howard University, Washington, D.C. 

 

Since its inception, the Sorority has chronicled a number of firsts. Zeta Phi Beta was the first Greek-letter organization to charter a chapter in Africa (1948); to form adult and youth auxiliary groups; to centralize its operations in a national headquarters.

 

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated is the only sorority constutionally bounded to a fraternity Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated.

 

The Trailblazers of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority would be remiss not to pay homage to the first women who believed in the need for a new and different type of Greek-lettered organization and acted upon that need. To these women, Zeta was more than an organization-it was a movement, a belief system that reflected, at its core, the desire to provide true Service, to embrace Scholarship, to set a standard for Sisterly Love and to define the noble concept of Finer Womanhood. This belief has sustained and encouraged Zetas around the world to hold fast to the ideals initiated and developed by its earliest members.

 

The Founders of Zeta were strong, principled coeds who possessed a great deal of modesty, strength of character and pride in academic achievement. They are indeed a worthy foundation upon which to base our illustrious Sorority.

 

Arizona Cleaver Stemons,Pearl Anna Neal, Myrtle Tyler Faithful, Viola Tyler Goings, Fannie Pettie Watts the Founders of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated.  Mrtyle Tyler Faithful and Viola Tyler Goings were blood sisters.