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The
year was 1920. It was the start of the decade, shortly after World
War One,
and a time of great prosperity for the country.
Women were called dames, dolls, or the cat's meow. At the beginning
of the decade, women still wore long skirts but the "Roaring
20s" brought a new look of short skirts and smartly coiffed
shorter hair. Racial tensions were high and quotas set for immigrants
coming into America. The Klan was very active during this period.
The Harlem Renaissance was acknowledged as the first important
movement of black artists and writers in the US. On January 16,
1920, the Volstead Act became effective, heralding the start of
Prohibition and on August 18th of the same year, Tennessee delivered
the crucial 36th ratification necessary for the final adoption
of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote. The worst
and longest economic recession to ever hit the United States would
define the end of the decade-the Great Depression. It was within
this environment that Zeta Phi Beta Sorority was founded. January
16, 1920, marked the conception of finer womanhood . .
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Beautiful Beta Iota
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Arizona Cleaver, Myrtle Tyler, Viola Tyler,
Fannie Pettie and Pearl Neal
dared
to depart from the traditional coalitions for black women and sought to
establish a new organization predicated on the precepts of Scholarship,
Service, Sisterly Love and Finer Womanhood. Over the years since the sorority's
inception, Zeta Phi Beta has chartered hundreds of chapters and initiated
thousands of women around the world. Zeta has continued to thrive and
flourish while adapting to the ever-changing needs of a new century.
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So Beautiful To Behold
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