On Friday, January 16, 1920, five pearls made a dream into reality. The dream was to create a sorority. This sorority would not embrace the tenets of the ones previously established, and would also be a sisterhood for Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. With the encouragement of two Sigma brothers, A. Langston Taylor and Charles Taylor, Arizona Cleaver Stemons, Myrtle Tyler Faithful, Viola Tyler Goings, Pearl Anna Neal, and Fannie Pettie Watts, formed one of the most influential and potent predominantly black organizations-- Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated. From its founding at Howard University 80 years ago, Zeta Phi Beta has grown in size to over 600 chapters with more than 100,000 women in the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and Asia. Though not the first black sorority, Zeta has accomplished many firsts. We are the first sorority to have international chapters and auxiliary groups. "Often imitated, NEVER duplicated," Zeta is the ONLY black sorority to be constitutionally bound to a black fraternity. By always bearing in mind our precepts of Service, Scholarship, Sisterly love and our ideal of Finer womanhood, we have become the epitome of Womanhood. Our seven point plan of action, bears witness to how we continuously strive to serve our community. This plan encourages us to focus on Community Volunteerism, Education, Government Affairs, Drug and Substance Abuse Prevention, Health and Wellness Awareness, Economic Development and Chapter Management so that we may better serve our community.
