Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc./Phi Sigma Zeta Chapter-Camilla, Ga.

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated was organized at Howard University on January 16, 1920 as the result of encouragement given to our five founders by Charles Taylor and A. Langston Taylor, members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated. These Sigma brothers felt the campus would benefit by the development of such an organization as sisters to the fraternity. Thus, Zetas and Sigmas became

the first official Greek-letter sister and brother organization. The five founders 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, sisterhood, and Finer Womanhood. The sorority is the first organization to charter a chapter in Africa and in Germany; to form adult and youth auxiliary groups, the Amicae, Archonettes, Amicettes, and Pearlettes; to organize its internal affairs within a central, national office administered by a paid staff; and to be constitutionally bound to a brother fraternity. Phi Sigma Zeta Chapter was the brainchild of Soror Avis Bowling. She saw the need for a chapter in the Mitchell County Area. Phi Sigma Zeta was chartered at the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity 2008 94th Southern Regional Conference.