Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated
Epsilon Beta Zeta Graduate Chapter
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc
The Beginning
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated was founded January 16, 1920 on the campus of Howard University in Washington, DC. Zeta Phi Beta Sorority began as an idea conceived by our Five Pearls: Arizona Cleaver, Myrtle Tyler, Viola Tyler, Fannie Pettie and Pearl Neal.
These five phenomenal women dared to depart from the traditional coalitions for black women seeking to establish an organization predicated on the precepts of Scholarship, Service, Sisterly Love & Finer Womanhood.
A Constitutional Bond
The encouragement and support to start the Sorority came from two members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated: Brothers Charles R.S. Taylor and A. Langston Taylor. This encouragement garnered the official first and only constitutionally bounded sorority and fraternity under the National Pan-Hellenic Council.
Epsilon Beta Zeta
The Legacy Continues
Originally chartered in September of 1953, the Epsilon Beta Zeta chapter was revitalized April 1, 2010 to continue serving the Plant City, Florida community. The six re-chartering members are Chantel D. Bowie, Karla Clayton, Chakita Hargrove, Martha Holley, Samantha Holley-McDonald and Amanda C. Phillips.
Epsilon Beta Zeta is a chapter in the Southeastern Region in the State of Florida.