Is it true that Phi Beta Sigma only allows African Americans to join?”
The Annual Joint Founder’s Day Observance of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. (Gamma Sigma Chapter) and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc (Alpha Xi Zeta Chapter) has been scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010 at 2 p.m. in the Star-Mindingall Auditorium, located at 3240 Franklin Road in Tuskegee. This year’s theme is “Celebrating 90 Years of Helping Other People Excel.” Dr. Wendy R. Coleman, a dynamic Ambassador of the Gospel, will be the principal speaker. The founding visionary of Remnant Ministries of Albany, Ga. and a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., she is fully equipped to motivate and inspire members of the fraternity and sorority, as well citizens of the larger community. In 1996, Coleman founded and opened This Blessed Place: For Women Only, a ministry aimed at discovering, discussing, and healing the special hurts of women. Another of her initiatives, New Anointing Performance Troupe, toured Florida, Alabama and Mississippi with its first production, James Baldwin’s, “The Amen
Phi Beta Sigma (ΦΒΣ) is a predominantly African-American fraternity which was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1914. by three young African-American male students. The founders A. Langston Taylor, Leonard F. Morse, and Charles I. Brown, wanted to organize a Greek letter fraternity that would exemplify the ideals of brotherhood, scholarship, and service. The fraternity is the only one of its kind to aid in the creation and hold a constitutional bond with a predominantly African-American sorority, Zeta Phi Beta (ΖΦΒ). The fraternity was incorporated on January 31, 1920 in Washington D.C. The fraternity expanded when second and third chapters were chartered at Wiley College and Morgan State College in 1915. Today, the fraternity serves through a membership of more than 150,000 men in over 650 chapters in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean. Although Phi Beta Sigma is considered a predominantly African-American Fraternity, membership also consis
Phi Beta Sigma (ΦΒΣ) is a predominantly African-American fraternity which was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1914. by three young African-American male students. The founders A. Langston Taylor, Leonard F. Morse, and Charles I. Brown, wanted to organize a Greek letter fraternity that would exemplify the ideals of brotherhood, scholarship, and service. The fraternity was incorporated on January 31, 1920 in Washington D.C. Today, the fraternity serves through a membership of more than 150,000 men in over 650 chapters in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean. Although Phi Beta Sigma is considered a predominantly African-American Fraternity, membership also consists of College-educated men of African, Caucasian, Hispanic, Native American, and Asian descent.
