Zeta Phi Beta
About
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated (ΖΦΒ) was founded on the campus of Howard University on January 16, 1920 by our founders affectionately referred to as our Five Pearls. Our founders dared to depart from the traditional coalitions for black women and sought to establish a new organization predicated on the precepts of Scholarship, Service, Sisterhood and Finer Womanhood. We are an organization who has achieved many firsts, such as the first to be constitutionally bound to a fraternity (Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated), the first sorority to charter chapters in Africa, to form adult and youth auxiliary groups, and much more.
The OUTSTANDING Omicron Mu Metropolitan Chapter was chartered on October 18th, 1983 in the city of Buffalo, NY. The chartering members are Laura Williams, Fredricka Barton, Shirley Harrison, Kimberly Martin, Maggie Henriquez, and Ermine Lewis.
"There is a Zeta in every girl regardless of race, creed, or color, who has high standards and principles, a good scholarly average and an active interest in all things that she undertakes to accomplish."
- Triumphant Founder Viola Tyler Goings