"FROM BEGINNING TO THE END, THE MEN OF SIGMA WHO REPRESENTED. G.O.M.A.B."
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, 92 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.
is our constitutionally sanctioned sister organization. Zeta was organized on January 16, 1920. The founders and charter members were: Arizona Cleaver, Viola Tyler, Myrtle Tyler, Pearl Neal and Fannie Pettie. These women are known to all Sigma's as the "Five Pearls". The Pearls were aided in establishing Zeta by Brothers Charles Robert Samuel Taylor and A. Langston Taylor.
Phi Beta Sigma is a member of the National Pan Hellenic Council. The other Fraternities and Sororities that comprise the council are: Zeta Phi Beta, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta, Sigma Gamma Rho, Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, Omega Phi Psi and Iota Phi Theta.
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