Founder Taylor chose business for his life's career and from 1917 to 1926 he conducted a real estate and insurance business. He received his college and professional training at Howard and Frelinghuysen University in Washington, D.C. He graduated from the Howe Institute in 1909 which is now Lemoyne-Owen College in Memphis. One of the three founders of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., was born in Memphis, Tennessee. With the force, vigor, power and energy of its more than 100,000 dedicated men united in more than 700 chapters across the United States, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean, Phi Beta Sigma continues to faithfully perpetuate composite growth and progress as the "people's fraternity" dedicated to providing services to all humanity. and the Phi Beta Sigma Federal Credit Union (to build financial equity within our target communities). No longer a single entity, the fraternity has now established the Phi Beta Sigma Educational Foundation, Inc. This deep conviction was mirrored in the fraternity motto, "Culture For Service and Service For Humanity." Today, more than three-quarters of a century later, Phi Beta Sigma has blossomed into an international organization of leaders. Rather than gaining skills to be utilized exclusively for themselves and their immediate families, the founders of Phi Beta Sigma held the deep conviction that they should return their newly acquired skills to the communities from which they had come. From its inception, the founders also conceived Phi Beta Sigma as a mechanism to deliver services to the general community. This deep conviction was mirrored in our fraternity motto, "Culture for Service and Service for Humanity". Rather than gaining skills to be utilized exclusively for themselves and their immediate families, the founders of Phi Beta Sigma held the deep conviction that they should return to their newly acquired skills to the community from which they had come. From the beginning, the founders conceived Phi Beta Sigma as a mechanism to deliver services to the greater community. They wanted their fraternity to exist as a part of an even greater brotherhood which would be devoted to the "inclusive we" rather than the "exclusive we". They believed that individuals should be judged on their own merits rather that their family background, without regard of race, nationality, color, skin tone, or hair texture. Brown, wanted to organize a Greek letter fraternity that would truly exemplify the ideas of Brotherhood, Scholarship, and Service.The Founders deeply wished to create an organization that viewed itself as a part of the general community rather than apart from it. Langston Taylor, Most Honorable Leonard F. on Januby three daring, young black students. was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
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