Phi Beta Sigma History
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Phi Beta Sigma
Fraternity, Inc. was founded at Howard University in Washington, DC January
9th, 1914 by three young African American male students. The founders, Honorable
A. Langston Taylor, Honorable Leonard F. Morse, and Honorable Charles I. Brown
wanted to organize a Greek-letter fraternity that would truly exemplify the
high ideals of Brotherhood, Scholarship, and Service.
The founders deeply wished to create an organization
that viewed itself as "a part of" the general community. They
believed that each potential member should be judged on his own merits rather
than his family background or affluence, without regard of race, nationality,
color, skin tone or texture of hair.
They wished and wanted their fraternity to exist as a part of an even greater
brotherhood-sisterhood which would be devoted to the "inclusive we" rather
than the "exclusive we."
From its inception, the founders also conceived
Phi Beta Sigma as a mechanism to deliver services to the general community.
Rather than gaining skills to be utilized exclusively for themselves and their
immediate families, the founders of Phi Beta Sigma held the deep conviction
that they should return their newly acquired skills to the communities from
which they had come. This deep conviction was mirrored in the fraternity motto,
"Culture For Service and Service For
Humanity."
Today, more than three-quarters of a century
later, Phi Beta Sigma has blossomed into an international organization of
leaders. Phi Beta Sigma consists of men dedicated to enhancing great minds
and promoting systematic fellowship, African-American freedom, justice, equal
rights, and service to America's communities. Being both a social and service
organization, Phi Beta Sigma has many programs. Our three National Programs
are Social Action,
Bigger and Better Business, and Education. In order to
implement these and other programs, the Fraternity works with organizations
such as: The National Pan-Hellenic Council, the NAACP,
National Boys' Club of America, and the American Cancer Society.
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity is an organization that is concerned and involved
in meeting the needs of the community
With the force, vigor, power and energy of its
more than 100,000 dedicated men united in more than 700 chapters across the
United States, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean, Phi Beta Sigma continues
to faithfully perpetuate composite growth and progress as the "people's fraternity"
dedicated to providing services to all humanity.
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