Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington D.C. on January 16, 1920. Five women chose not to embrace the tenets of already established sororities. These "Five Pearls" were Arizona Cleaver Stemmons, Myrtle Tyler Faithful, Viola Tyler Goings, Pearl Anna Neal and Fannie Pettie Watts.
With the encouagement of Charles Taylor and Langston Taylor, members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated, our beloved Founders organized this supreme sorority. The Sigma brothers felt that the campus would benefit by the developement of such an organization as a sister to the fraternity. Thus, Zetas and Sigmas became the first official Greek-letter constitutionally bound fraternity and sorority. Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. was founded on the following principles: Sisterly Love, Community Service, Scholarship, and Finerwomanhood. A private nonprofit organization, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority was incorporated in Washington, D.C. and in the state of Illinois.
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. is a community conscious, action oriented organization that provides programs to meet the day-to-day needs of our communities.
For eighty-two years, the path taken by our founders has been traveled by thousands of women who are dedicated to the fulfillment of the objectives and ideas of the sorority. Since its inception, the sorority has grown to more than 100,000 college-educated, professional women worldwide. There are more than 700 collegiate and graduate chapters, divided into nine regions in the United States and Africa. The sorority also has chapters in the Bahama Islands; Germany; Virgin Islands, South Korea and Italy.
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