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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 ...
Sigma Brother Charles R. Taylor (On Arizona Cleaver & the organization of Zeta Phi Beta) The newly established Zeta Phi Beta sorority, Inc. was given a formal introduction at the Whitelaw Hotel by their Sigma counterparts, Charles R. and A. Langston Taylor. As National Executive Secretary of Phi Beta Sigma, Charles Taylor wrote to all Sigma chapters requesting they establish Zeta chapters at ...
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 ...
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 ...
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. ( ΖΦΒ) is an International collegiate sorority that is historically African American. In 1920, five women from Howard University envisioned a sorority that would raise the consciousness of their people, encourage the highest standards of scholastic achievement, and foster a greater sense of unity among its members.
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 ...
Tolbert was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1943, and served until being elected Vice President in 1951. [5] A Baptist minister, in 1965 he became the first African to serve as President of the Baptist World Alliance, [6] [7] [8] and was also a member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. [9] He became Grand Master of the Masonic Order ...
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.