Zeta Rho Sigma - Fraternity History

TM	Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. Zeta Rho Sigma Alumni Chapter Serving Camden & Gloucester Counties P.O. Box 2862 ~ Camden, NJ 08101

HISTORY OF
PHI BETA SIGMA
FRATERNITY, INC.

Phi Beta Sigma is an international brotherhood of over 150,000 men in over 650 chapters worldwide, ranging from the Caribbean, Germany, and Africa to the Philippines, Switzerland, and the United States.

Sparked October 18, 1913 in a local YMCA by three young men - A. Langston Taylor, Leonard F. Morse and Charles I. Brown, The Fraternity was formally organized and chartered at Howard University on January 9, 1914. Founded upon the principles of Brotherhood, Service and Scholarship, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity has constantly remained a force of change in the African-American community.

Through its three National Programs: Bigger and Better Business, Social Action, and Education, the Fraternity has demonstrated unparalleled excellence and leadership. They help focus the fraternity on delivering to the needs of today's and tomorrow's world. Our National mentoring program, the Sigma Beta Club, one of the more notable accomplishments of the Fraternity, has helped to shape and mold young men and boys nationwide.

In order to implement these and other programs, Phi Beta Sigma works with organizations such as:

The National Pan-Hellenic Council
The NAACP
The National Urban League
March of Dimes Birth Defect Foundation
The National Boys and Girls Clubs of America
The American Cancer Society

No longer a single entity, the fraternity has now established the Phi Beta Sigma Educational Foundation, Inc. (to provide housing assistance) and the Phi Beta Sigma Federal Credit Union (to build financial equity within our target communities). As a social and service organization, Phi Beta Sigma has many programs.

Phi Beta Sigma's focus in past social issues include being instrumental in establishing national and state anti-lynching legislation in the 1930's and 40's, and the elimination of racial discrimination and segregation in federal, state, municipal and county employment in the 50's and 60's, along with the abolition of Jim Crow laws. Brother A. Phillip Randolph was a key factor and the mind behind the march on Washington during the sixties civil right's movement, as was Brother Huey P. Newton in awakening the minds of African-Americans to rise up out of the plight of mental slavery.

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. are the first and only constitutionally bound brother-sister African-American Greek letter organization in existence.

In 1995, Phi Beta Sigma in cooperation with our lovely Sorors of Zeta, became the only African-American Fraternity and Sorority to not only SUPPORT the Million Man March in Washington, DC, but to SPONSOR it as well. Phi Beta Sigma's headquarters at 145 Kennedy St. NW in Washington, DC served as the National Headquarters for the event. Our distinguished Brother Benjamin Chavis was the coordinator behind the event.

Phi Beta Sigma, as envisioned by the Founders, consists of MEN... BROTHERS dedicated to enhancing great minds and promoting systematic fellowship, African-American freedom, justice, equal rights, and service to American communities.

Sigma's current focus: Rebuilding Bridges to Bridge the Gap of Brotherhood, Scholarship, and Service

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity is one of nine (9) African-American Fraternities and sororities that comprise the National Pan-Hellenic Council.

"Our Cause Speeds on its Way"...

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