Summer 1910
Abram Langston Taylor has the idea to form a fraternity after a conversation with a recent Howard University graduate, in his home town of Memphis, TN
November 23, 1910
A. L. Taylor enters Howard University as a special student
Spring 1911
A. L. Taylor begins to lay plan to carry out his vision
October 18, 1913
A. L. Taylor & Leonard Francis Morse have first conversation about forming a fraternity. They agree on Charles I. Brown as the third member of the founding group
November 2, 1913
1st meeting of the Organization Committee in A. L. Taylors home
November / December 1913
9 students are accepted for membership and plans for the Fraternity are made
January 9, 1914 / Friday evening- Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity was born
Founded at the 12th Street Y.M.C.A./Bowen Room in Washington, D.C.