On Saturday, October 18, 1913, MHF Abram Langston Taylor presented to MHF Leonard F. Morse the proposition of establishing a new fraternity. It was to be at Howard University, Washington DC. MHF Charles Inatius Brown, another student at Howard, was invited to aid the movement. Hence, PHI BETA SIGMA FRATERNITY.INC. was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C., January 9, 1914. The Board of Deans at Howard University recognized the new fraternity on April 15, 1914. The University Reporter, the student publication at Howard University, made public the organization of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, the following week. The first initiation was held May 4, 1914. On January 31, 1920, Phi Beta Sigma was incorporated in Washington, DC and became Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. Since its creation, Phi Beta Sigma has given the best of service to Black Americans and blacks throughout the world. Today, more than three-quarters of a century later, Phi Beta Sigma has blossomed into an international organization of leaders. No longer a single entity, the fraternity has now established the Phi Beta Sigma Educational Foundation, Inc. and the Phi Beta Sigma Federal Credit Union (to build financial equity within our target communities). 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, 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.
