HISTORY

Founded January 16, 1920, Zeta began as an idea conceived by five coeds at Howard University in Washington D.C.: Arizona Cleaver, Myrtle Tyler, Viola Tyler, Fannie Pettie and Pearl Neal. These five women, also known as our Five Pearls, dared to depart from the traditional coalitions for black women and sought to establish a new organization predicated on the precepts of Scholarship, Service, Sisterly Love and Finer Womanhood. It was the ideal of the Founders that the Sorority would reach college women in all parts of the country who were sorority minded and desired to follow the founding principles of the organization.

NOTABLE ZETA’S

Sheryl Underwood – Comedian, Minnie Riperton – Entertainer, Dione Warwick – Singer, Zora Neale Hurston – Writer, Syleena Johnson- Singer, Wendy Palmer- WNBA Player, Violette Anderson- 1st Woman of color to practice law before the US Supreme court, Bernette J. Johnson- 1st black female State Supreme Court justice in Louisiana

Website: http://www.zphib1920.org/