Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
The Mu Xi Chapter

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated was founded on January 16, 1920 on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. by five eminent women and two honorable brothers of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated.

 

These women dared to depart from the traditional coalitions for African American women and sought to establish a new organization predicated on the precepts of Scholarship, Service, Finer Womanhood and Sisterhood. The trail blazed by the founders has been traveled by thousands of women who are dedicated to the emulation of the objectives and ideals of this Sorority.

 

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated has chronicled a number of firsts. Zeta was the first National Pan- Hellenic Council organization to charter a chapter in Africa (Sierra Leon and Liberia, 1948); to form adult and youth auxiliary groups, the Amicae, Archonettes, Amicettes, and Pearlettes; to be constitutionally bound to a brotherhood fraternity- Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated- thus creating the (often imitated) only true family in the Black Greek Community; and to charter a chapter in the Middle East(Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 2014).

 

Zeta's national and local programs include endowment of its National Educational Foundation, March of Dimes Foundation, community outreach services, and support of multiple affiliate organizations. Zeta chapters and auxiliary groups have given a plethora of voluntary service hours to educate the public, assist youth, provide scholarships, support organized charities and promote legislation for social and civic change.

 

A nonprofit organization, Zeta Phi Beta is incorporated in Washington, D.C. and in the state of Illinois. The Sorority is supported by the dues and gifts of its members.

 

For more information, please visit our national website at www.zphib1920.org