National History

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. began as an idea conceived by five phenomenal women; Arizona Cleaver Stemons, Myrtle Tyler Faithful, Viola Tyler Goings, Fannie Pettie Watts and Pearl Anna Neal, on January 16, 1920 at Howard University in Washington D.C. These five women dared to depart from the traditional coalitions for black women and sought to establish a new organization. It was the idea of the Founders that the Sorority would reach college women in all parts of the country who were sorority minded and desired to follow the founding principles of the organization; 

• Scholarship
• Service
• Sisterly Love
• Finer Womanhood

Since its inception, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., has chronicled a number of first: 

• First Greek-letter Organization to charter a chapter in Africa (1948). 
• First Greek-letter Organization to form adult and youth auxiliary groups.
• First to centralize its operation in a national headquarters. 
• First and ONLY Sorority to be constitutionally bound to a Fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. 

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., also has several National programs and partnerships including:

• Z-HOPE ( Zeta's Helping Other People Excel)
• NEF ( National Education Foundation)
• Stork's Nest, in conjunction with March of Dimes
• American Cancer Society
• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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