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Founders. Phi Beta Sigma founders: A. Langston Taylor, ( first row, center ), Leonard F. Morse ( first row; third from right) and Charles I. Brown ( first row; third from left) with charter members of Phi Beta Sigma; Alpha Chapter in 1914. A. Langston Taylor, Esq. (January 29, 1890 - August 8, 1953) was the first international president of Phi ...
On January 31, 1920, Phi Beta Sigma was incorporated in the district of Washington, D.C., and became known as Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated. In November 1921, the first volume of the Phi Beta Sigma Journal was published. The journal was the official organ of the fraternity; Eugene T. Alexander was named its first editor.
Phi Beta Sigma (ΦΒΣ) is an international historically Black fraternity. Founded on January 9, 1914, on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C., Phi Beta Sigma has chartered chapters at other colleges, universities, and cities, and named them with Greek-letters. The fraternity's expansion started with its second (Beta) and third ...
Bob Booker, a member of Phi Beta Sigma, stands at Knoxville College’s homecoming, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021. In 2003, Dr. Booker was awarded the highest honor bestowed upon any member of Phi Beta ...
The council's membership expanded as Alpha Phi Alpha (1931), Phi Beta Sigma (1931), Sigma Gamma Rho (1937), and Iota Phi Theta (1996) later joined. In his book on BGLOs, The Divine Nine: The History of African-American Fraternities and Sororities in America (2001), Lawrence Ross coined the phrase "The Divine Nine" when referring to the ...
The list of Phi Beta Sigma ( ΦΒΣ) Conclaves includes actual, proposed, and forthcoming international conventions of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity. The Conclave is the legislative power of Phi Beta Sigma. During a conclave year, delegates representing all of the active chapters from within the seven regions of the fraternity meet in the chosen city.
Harold Lee Washington (April 15, 1922 – November 25, 1987) was an American lawyer and politician who was the 51st Mayor of Chicago. [1] Washington became the first African American to be elected as the city's mayor in April 1983. He served as mayor from April 29, 1983, until his death on November 25, 1987.
1914 – The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States. [24] 1916 – World War I : The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.