Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. was founded January 16, 1920 on the campus of Howard University, in Washington, D.C. This illustrious sorority was envisioned to be a sisterhood that endeavored to enhance the lives of women and men everywhere by following the four principles with which our beloved Five Pearls founded our sorority.
Arizona Cleaver (Stemons), Myrtle Tyler (Faithful), Viola Tyler (Goings), Fannie Pettie (Watts), and Pearl Anna Neal, otherwise known as the Five Pearls, chose not to embrace the tenets of established sororities and chartered Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. to encourage women who were sorority minded and desired to follow the four founding principles: Scholarship, Service, Sisterly Love, and Finer Womanhood.
The five founders were encouraged by two brothers of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., Abraham Langston Taylor and Charles Robert Samuel Taylor.
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. is known for being a sorority of firsts. Though we were not the first sorority to come into being, we are the first sorority to do the following:
Zeta is the first and only sorority to be officially and constitutionally bound to a fraternity (FBS).
Zeta was the first to organize its affairs in a central, national office administered by a paid staff.
Zeta was the first to form youth and adult auxiliary groups. (Amicae, Archonettes, Amicettes, and Pearlettes)
Zeta was the first to charter international chapters in West Africa(1948), Germany, the Bahamas, and St. Croix.
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