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History of Phi Beta Sigma |
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Phi Beta Sigma
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. was founded at Howard
University in Washington, DC on January
9th, 1914 by three young black 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. 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.
Source: Phi Beta Sigma www.sa.sc.edu
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