About Us

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated was organized at Howard University on January 16, 1920. Brothers Charles Taylor and Langston Taylor, members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, feel the campus would benefit from the development of an organization that could be sisters to the fraternity.  Thus Zetas and Sigmas became the first official Greek-letter sister and brother organization constitutionally bound. Zeta Phi Beta Sorority's purpose is to foster the ideals of Service, Scholarship, Finer Womanhood, and Sisterly Love. Our five founders were: Pearl Anna Neal, Arizona Cleaver (Stemons), Myrtle Tyler (Faithful), Viola Tyler (Goings), and Fannie Pettie (Watts).

A few of our Signature Programs include working with the March of Dimes, NAACP, American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association, American Red Cross, United Negro College Fund, Z-Hope (Zetas Helping Other People Excel, and the National Medical Association.