Below is a list of notable members of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority. Zeta Phi Beta was founded on January 16, 1920, on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C..[1] The sorority was incorporated in Washington, D.C. on March 30, 1923. In 1939, the sorority was incorporated in Illinois.[2]
First president of The Auburn Avenue Research Library in Atlanta, Second president of Morris Brown College, former State Chairman of the Colored Woman's Committee, and former president of the Georgia State Federation of Coloured Women, established the first free black kindergarten in Macon, GA and Charleston, SC
One of the first women appointed to the executive council of The National Association for The Study of Negro Life and History; Educator, writer and activist who worked to challenge inequality in the Kentucky public school system
The first African American faculty member, who became Assistant Professor of Education and supervisor of student teachers, at West Chester University; Namesake of Ruby Jones Hall on the campus of West Chester University
First woman on the debate team at Howard University, first woman Editor-In-Chief of The Hilltop, first woman at Howard University to receive a master of arts degree in religious education
The first black woman to intern at Harlem Hospital, former president of The Manhattan Central Medical Society, former Head Physician for The Harlem Hospital Medical Screening Unit
The first black student to be inducted into The William Jarvie Society for Dental Research; The first black woman to intern at the Guggenheim Dental Clinic for Children
The first African-American woman to receive a patent; The first African American to receive their A.B. from Molar Beauty School in Chicago; Inventor, Philanthropist
Former Senior Executive Officer for the U.S. Federal Government. Award recipient for the National Medical Association's Award for Outstanding Leadership in Improving Health Care in the Black Community
First African-American woman to earn a diploma from the Royal College of Arts; Singer, Dancer, Opera Singer,
Fannie Rosalind Givens
Started the first Art program for African American students at the State University- Louisville; served as president of the World Union of Colored Women for Peace and International Concord,and chair of the Fine Arts department of the National Association of Colored Women
Opera singer;The first African American to sing with an organized European opera company; The first African American to sing grand opera professionally
First African-American elected to the Town of Brookhaven Board (Long Island, NY); First Haitian-American female Elected Official in Suffolk County, NY; Civil Rights Attorney; Adjunct Instructor.
First African-American woman elected to the Tennessee Judiciary Charlotte Spann Director, Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, U.S. Department of the Interior.
Plaintiff in class action suit against the Town of Hempstead (Long Island, NY) in 1988 charging that the Town’s at large voting system for the Town Board discriminated against the minority community. In 1997, a federal judge agreed and ruled that the Town of Hempstead’s method of voting-at-large was discriminatory and violated the Voting Rights Act.
First African American woman to serve on the Town of Hempstead Board; Longest serving Councilperson on Town Board; First African American to serve as President of the Association of Towns of the State of New York.
Bernette Johnson
First black female State Supreme Court justice in Louisiana
Outreach Director for Congressman Jim Moran, Founder and CEO, Virginia Leadership Institute, Chair, Arlington Commission on the Status of Women, and Board of Directors, A-SPAN
The first woman to receive a Master of Laws degree from Loyola University;The 2nd African-American woman admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of the United States, following Violette N. Anderson; The first African-American delegate to the United Nations;The 1st African-American woman elected judge on the municipal court
Beatrice Welters
Nu Xi Zeta
US Ambassador to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
Former U.S. Education Chief, U.S. House of Representative committee on Education and Labor, and Chairperson of the New Jersey Board of Higher Education
Established a school for girls in 1923 to instill cultural and racial pride during the colonial years under British rule; Activist for cultural nationalism, educator, short story writer, and feminist
Thelma Duggin
Nu Xi Zeta
President of the Anbryce Foundation,Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, former Senior Vice President of UnitedHealthGroup
the first black person to be elected to the US Congress from Virginia, and dean of the law school at Howard University. African American women's rights activist
The first African American woman to hold an office in the National Council of Women. The only black delegate sent to the International Council of Women in Vienna, Austria in 1930
Adelaide Casely-HayfordMaggie Lena Walker (1864–1934) of Richmond, Virginia, first woman to form a bank in the United States