Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. was founded on January 16, 1920. Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. began as an idea conceived by five coeds, Arizona Cleaver, Myrtle Tyler, Viola Tyler, Fannie Pettie and Pearl Neal, at Howard University in Washington D.C. The Founders sought to establish a new organization predicated on the precepts of Scholarship, Service, Sisterly Love and Finer Womanhood.
Members of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. are college-educated women from a myriad of professions, including education, health care, finance, law, government, and journalism.
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., a community-conscious, action-oriented organization, is comprised of over 100,000 members throughout the United States, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean.
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; and to be constitutionally bound to a fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated.
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.'s national and local programs include endowment of its National Educational Foundation, community outreach services and support of multiple affiliate organizations. The Sorority's chapters and auxiliary groups have given countless hours of voluntary service to educate the public, assist youth, provide scholarships, support organized charities and promote legislation for social and civic change.
Members of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. are college-educated women from a myriad of professions, including education, health care, finance, law, government, and journalism.
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., a community-conscious, action-oriented organization, is comprised of over 100,000 members throughout the United States, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean.
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; and to be constitutionally bound to a fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated.
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.'s national and local programs include endowment of its National Educational Foundation, community outreach services and support of multiple affiliate organizations. The Sorority's chapters and auxiliary groups have given countless hours of voluntary service to educate the public, assist youth, provide scholarships, support organized charities and promote legislation for social and civic change.