The History of Zeta Phi Beta
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. was founded January 16th, 1920 on the campus of Howard University in Washington DC. by five lovely ladies. These ladies dared to depart from the traditional organizations for Black women and sought to establish a new organization focusing on Scholarship, Service, Sisterly Love and Finer womanhood. A private nonprofit organization, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority is incoprporated in Washington, D.C. and in the state of Illinois.
This sorority is the first Greek letter organization to charter chapters in Africa. The first to form adult and youth auxiliary groups
- Amicae
- Archonettes
- Pearlettes and
- Amicettes
Also Zeta Phi Beta is the first sorority to be constitutionally bound to a fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.
