From The Sigma Light:
This Founder [A. Langston Taylor] gives an intimate picture of those days of birth and infancy.
This is how it came about. One dull summer day in 1910, I was on my way home from downtown and paused for a while at Bumper’s Beale Street Grocery Store to pick up the latest news from the Squash Center, which usually held afternoon sessions there. I engaged in conversation with a young man recently graduated from Howard University, and since I had already decided to go to Howard, I was very much interested in what he had to say about the University. He dwelt at length on the activities of Greek-letter fraternities there. His talk gave me an idea, and from that day on, Phi Beta Sigma was in the making.
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