Viola Margaret Tyler Goings (August 29, 1899 – March 9, 1983)[1] was an American educator, and one of the "Five Pearls", the five founding members of the Black sorority Zeta Phi Beta in 1920.

[4][5] Goings was a mathematics teacher in Springfield, Ohio, and in Smithfield, North Carolina.

She and her sister appeared and spoke at national Zeta Phi Beta events into their seventies.

[9] Her daughter Wynona was inducted into Zeta Phi Beta in 2019, at the age of 95, to mark the sorority's 99th anniversary.

[4] The "Five Pearls" are celebrated every year by hundreds of Zeta Phi Beta chapters across North America.