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The Five Founders of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. - known as the "Five Pearls": Arizona Cleaver Stemons, Pearl Anna Neal, Myrtle Tyler Faithful, Viola Tyler Goings, Fannie Pettie Watts.
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated was founded on Friday, January 16, 1920 on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. Five women, known as our Five Pearls - Arizona Cleaver Stemons, Pearl Anna Neal, Myrtle Tyler Faithful, Viola Tyler Goings, and Fannie Pettie Watts - envisioned a sorority that would affect positive change and be based on the principles of Scholarship, Service, Sisterly Love, and Finer Womanhood. It was the ideal of our Founders that the sorority would reach college-educated women across the country who desired to follow the founding principles of the organization. Since its inception, Zeta Phi Beta has chartered hundreds of chapters worldwide and has a membership of more than 100,000 Finer women.
The sorority was the first Greek-letter organization to charter a chapter in Africa (1948); to form adult and youth auxiliary groups, the Amicae (1948), Archonettes (1950s), Amicettes (1950s), and Pearlettes (1974); and to be constitutionally bound to a brother group, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated.
The current 26th International President of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. is Dr. Stacie N.C. Grant.
Vision: Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated is the foremost network of socially and politically conscious citizens and activists. We care. We act. We help change lives.
Mission: Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated is the leading community-conscious organization for Finer Women striving to empower the disenfranchised with the necessary skills and services to thrive. We are advocates of the people and are called to higher purpose of service.
Motto: A Community-Conscious, Action-Oriented Organization
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