Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. was founded on the campus of Howard University on January 16, 1920. As a result of the encouragement of Charles Robert Taylor and A. Langston Taylor, members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., Arizona Cleaver united with Pearl Neal, Myrtle Tyler, Viola Tyler, and Fannie Pettie to bring into fruition a great sisterhood. Today, Zeta Phi Beta extends to over 800 chapters and 100,000+ members worldwide unified under the founding principles of Scholarship, Service, Sisterly Love, and Finer Womanhood. Since its inception, the Sorority has chronicled a number of firsts. Zeta Phi Beta was the first Greek-letter organization to charter a chapter in Africa (1948); to form adult and youth auxiliary groups; to centralize its operations in a national headquarters; and to be constitutionally bound to a fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated.
