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 Phi Beta Sigma - Memphis, TN Posted by:  Lat34North
N 35° 08.341 W 090° 02.848
15S E 769007 N 3892451
Located at the Robert Church Park on Beale St, Memphis, TN. There are several historic markers locate here.
Waymark Code: WMT59P
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 09/28/2016
Views: 1
The plaque reads:
Phi Beta Sigma
Native Tennessean Abram Langston Taylor, near this spot, 423 Beale Avenue, conceived the idea of establishing an international organization of college and professional men dedicated to “Culture for Service and Service For Humanity”. On January 9, 1914 at Howard University, together with Leonard F. Morse and Charles I Brown, Taylor became the principal founder of the organization that he had envisioned.
In his own words, Taylor related: “One dull summer day in 1910, I paused for a while at Bumpus Beale Avenue Grocery to pick up the latest news from the Squash Center...In conversation with a young man recently graduated from Howard...he dwelt at length on the activities of Greek Letter fraternities there. His talk gave me an idea, and from that day, Phi Beta Sigma was in the making...”
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Tennessee Historical Commission
Marker Name: Phi Beta Sigma
Marker Location: City
Type of Marker: Person
Marker Number: None
Group(s) Responsible for placing Marker:
Unknown
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