Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. was founded on January 9, 1914, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by three African American students, A. Langston Taylor, Leonard F. Morse, and Charles I. Brown.
On the occasion of Phi Beta Sigma’s centennial in 2014, the fraternity honored one of its members. A Phi Beta Sigma pin was placed on the wax likeness of George Washington Carver at the Griot Museum of Black History in St. Louis, Missouri.
In 1918, Carver was a charter member of the fraternity’s Gamma Sigma Alumni chapter at the Tuskegee Institute. President Harry Truman signed a joint resolution approved December 28, 1945 (Public Law 290, 79th Congress). In the resolution, Congress designated January 5, 1946 as George Washington Carver Day.
Carver once said, “It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.”
