FRATERNITY HISTORY
The Founders of our wondrous band are:
Hon. C. I. Brown, Hon. A. Langston Taylor, and Hon. Leonard F. Morse
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. was founded at Howard University in
Washington, DC 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, 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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