Newton, is also a Phi Beta Sigma brother. NewsBreak Contributors Publishers Advertisers. Sign in. Community Policy. Related uticaphoenix. Unable to participate in the typical college activities, Elder Watson Diggs and Byron Kenneth Armstrong decided to create a fraternal space where they could have their own collegiate experience.
Like Comment Share. Free Lance-Star. In recent years, the Salvation Army has faced unprecedented challenges resourcing volunteers as bell ringers for this annual fundraiser. Describe Sigma Psi Zeta- what is the purpose or mission?. Sigma Psi Zeta Sorority, Inc. Langston Taylor, Charles I. Brown, Leonard F. Louis, Missouri, the Fraternity engaged in a restructuring of its programming, leading to the birth of Education as an International program.
The program focuses on providing a variety of services to alumni and collegiate members of the Fraternity, which in turn translates to services to local communities. In-house programs include providing scholarships, conferences, college fairs, mentoring and tutoring at local, regional and national levels.
The Adopt-A-School component is designed to get Sigma men into the schools in your community, working with teachers and principals to assist students in improving their knowledge, skills academically and build student literacy. While in the schools, your chapter will implement one or more of the sub-components of this initiative which include:. The scholarship component is designed to have Sigma grow its impact in the area of assisting with the cost of education at both the high school and college levels through the awarding of scholarships at both levels.
Chapters are tasked with raising money in various ways, as per chapter decision, to award these scholarships. Marcus Chanay International Dir. Cummings was an influential Democratic leader during his 12 terms in Congress, becoming a passionate advocate for some of the Democratic Party's most pressing and significant civil rights issues.
Cummings joined the Phi Beta Kappa at Howard University and earned a bachelor's degree in political science in He graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in and passed the Maryland bar the following year. A lawyer for 19 years, Cummings was elected to the United States House of Representatives for Maryland's 7th congressional district in until he died in Congressman Elijah Cummings.
Lewis was a key figure in the civil rights movement and was notably the youngest speaker at the March on Washington, witnessing Martin Luther King Jr. After his college admission to Troy University, an all-white institution, was denied, Dr. King and Lewis' parents encouraged Lewis to attend Fisk University. He earned a bachelor's degree in religion and philosophy.
Lewis was first elected into Congress in and served 17 terms in the U. House of Representatives. The civil rights activist has received over 50 honorary degrees, and in , Lewis accepted the Medal of Freedom from former President Barack Obama. One of the most distinguished black scientists of the early 20th century, George Washington Carver, joined the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity in Carver applied to many schools and was denied, due to his race, before being accepted to Highland University in He then became the first Black student in history to receive a bachelor's and a master's degree and the first Black faculty member hired by the university.
Washington in He taught there for 47 years.
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