NPHC Sororities
The Theta Beta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc
The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated was founded on January 15, 1908, on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. by nine most gracious ladies. From its inception ninety-nine years ago, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. has been dedicated to "service to all mankind." The leadership of the sorority has always established service that responds to the needs and concerns of the nation's youth and disadvantaged.
Today, the international membership of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. is well over 200,000 college-educated women. Internationally, there are over 860 chapters located in areas such as West Africa, the United Kingdom, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Korea, Germany, and the Bahamas. Some notable women of Alpha Kappa Alpha are Dr. Mae Jemison, Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou, Coretta Scott King, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Star Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, and the list goes on.
The Theta Beta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority was chartered October 28, 1973 on the campus of Oklahoma State University.
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The Eta Pi Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. was founded January 16, 1920 on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. by five co-eds: Arizona Cleaver, Myrtle Tyler, Viola Tyler, Fannie Pettie, and Pearl A. Neal. These women dared to depart from the traditional coalitions for Black women and sought to establish a new organization predicated on the ideals of Scholarship, Service, Sisterly Love and Finer Womanhood. For more than eighty years, the trail blazed by these illustrious women has been traversed by thousands of women dedicated to the objectives and ideals established by the Five Pearls of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
Since its inception, the Sorority has expanded to encompass more than 500 graduate and collegiate chapters around the world, including locations in the Caribbean Islands, West Africa, and Germany. In addition to its international presence, the Sorority has established several firsts for historically Black Greek Lettered Organizations (BGLOs). Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. was the first to charter a chapter in Africa; to centralize its operations in a national headquarters; to form adult and youth auxiliary groups--the Amicae, Archonettes, Amicettes, and Pearlettes; and to be constitutionally bound to a brother fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.
The Eta Pi Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority was chartered at Oklahoma State University March 15, 1996.
