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131:, the school's yearbook, in 1924. She was one of the first members of the Zeta Phi Beta (Zeta), serving as the sorority's third Grand Basileus (president) from 1922 to 1923. She went to graduate school at
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Houston's birth year varies in primary and secondary sources. She is described as a two-year-old child in the 1900 United States Census, lending more weight to the 1897 date; via Ancestry
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Faithful to the Task at Hand: The Life of Lucy Diggs Slowe
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Finer Women: The Birth of Zeta Phi Beta
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