Providing Service to the Community For 90 Years
"Culture for Service and Service for Humanity"
Brother Rommel Cave, Chapter President
Epsilon Sigma Chapter
Providing Service to the Harlem Community for 90 Years
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. was founded at Howard University in Washington, DC
on January 9, 1914 by three young black 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 high ideals of brotherhood, scholarship and service. Today, Phi Beta Sigma is
still based on these ideals, which are further crystallized and expressed in the fraternity's motto
"Culture for Service and Service for Humanity"
Fraternity Programs:
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Social Action
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Bigger & Better Business
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Education
During the 20th anniversary of Sigma, the Committee on Public Policy urged that the
fraternity come forth with a broadly-based program that would be addressed to the problems
of the great masses of the Negro people. This new departure, in large measure, grew out of
the experiences of the New York group. These men from Manhattan brought with them a new idea, SOCIAL ACTION
Phi Beta Sigma has from its very beginning concerned itself with improving the general
well-being of minority groups. In 1934, a well-defined program of Social Action was formulated
and put into action. Bro. Elmo M. Anderson, then president of Epsilon Sigma Chapter (New York)
formulated this program calling for the reconstruction of social order. It was a tremendous success.
It fit in with the social thinking of the American public in those New Deaal Years.
In the winter of 1934 Brother Elmo Anderson, James W. Johnson, Emmett May and Bob Jiggets came
down to the Conclave in Washington, DC and presented their Social Action proposition, and just
the birth of Social Action as a National Program.
In addition, Bro. Anderson is known in Sigma as "The Father of Social Action". Bigger & Better Business Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., believes that the improvement and economic conditions of Bigger & Better Business Financial Freedom Freedom Sources Click Here BBB FF$ Education The National Program of Education focuses on programming and services to graduate and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., Epsilon Sigma Chapter Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., Delta Nu Sigma Chapter BOWLING FOR SCHOLARS III
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The Bigger and Better Negro Business idea was first tested in 1924 with an imposing
exhibition in Philadelphia. This was held in connection with the Conclave. Twenty-five leading
Negro Businesses sent statements and over fifty sent exhibits. The whole show took place in the l
obby of the YMCA. Several thousand visitors seemed to have been impressed. The response was
so great that the 1925 Conclave in Richmond, Virginia voted unanimously to make Bigger and Better
Negro Business the public program of the Fraternity, and it has been so ever since."
minorities is a major fact in the improvement of the general welfare of society. It is upon this
conviction that the Bigger and Better Business Program rests. Since 1926, the Bigger and Better Business
Program has been sponsored on a national scale by Phi Beta Sigma as a way of supporting, fostering,
and promoting minority owned businesses and services.
The founder’s of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., were all educators in their own right. The genesis
of the Education Program lies in the traditional emphasis that the Fraternity places on Education.
During the 1945 Conclave in St. Louis, Missouri, the fraternity underwent a constitution restructuring
after World War II, and this lead to the birth of the Education as a National Program. 
undergraduates in the fraternity. Programs such as scholarships, lectures, college fairs, mentoring,
and tutoring enhance this program on local, regional and national levels.
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