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Phi
Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.
was founded
at Howard University in Washington, D.C., January 9,
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 ideals of brotherhood,
scholarship, and service.
The founders deeply wished to create an organization
that viewed itself as "a part of" the general community
rather than "apart from" the general community. They
believed that each potential member should be judged by
his own merits rather than his family background or
affluence...without regard of race, nationality, skin
tone or texture of hair. They wished and wanted their
fraternity to exist as part of even a greater
brotherhood 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 a 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's motto, "Culture
For Service and Service For Humanity".
Today, almost 100 years 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, the Phi Beta
Sigma Housing Foundation, the
Phi Beta Sigma Federal Credit
Union, and the Phi
Beta Sigma Charitable Outreach Foundation.
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority,
Inc., founded in 1920 with the assistance of Phi Beta
Sigma, is the sister organization. No other fraternity
and sorority is constitutionally bound as Sigma and
Zeta. We both enjoy and foster a mutually supportive
relationship.
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