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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 110,000 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.
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