Today the initiative is promoted through Project S.E.E.D. The fraternity allowed over fifty black businesses to exhibit at the convention to help them establish a national market for their products. Sigma and Zeta are the only constitutionally bound sister-brother organization among black Greek-letter groups.įrom its founding the fraternity believed it should be a vehicle for delivering services to the African American community. The founders showcased that idea with the fraternity’s motto, “Culture for Service and Service to Humanity.” One of its earliest programs, the Bigger and Better Negro Business initiative, began at the Sigma national convention in Philadelphia in 1924. Langston Taylor helped to establish the first “sister” sorority to a black fraternity, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority at the Howard University Campus. Also by that date, Phi Beta Sigma members Charles R.
The fraternity grew quickly across the nation with chapters from Maryland to Texas by 1920. Alain Leroy Locke, a 1907 graduate of Harvard University who in 1908 entered Oxford University in England as the first African American Rhodes Scholar. The fraternity, seeking to broaden its appeal beyond undergraduates, also initiated a number of rising scholars in the black community including Dr. They also wanted to create an inclusive organization that did not discriminate by racial background, family background, or social status.īy the summer of 1914 Phi Beta Sigma had grown from the three founders to over 14 members in its Alpha Chapter at Howard University. The founders wanted the organization to be “a part of” rather than “apart from” the community. Brown on the principles of Brotherhood, Scholarship, and Service. (Sigma) was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C., on January 14, 1914, by three college students, A.
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