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- Title
BROTHERHOOD AND THE QUEST FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN SOCIAL EQUALITY: A STORY OF PHI BETA SIGMA.
- Authors
Laybourn, Wendy Marie; Parks, Gregory S.
- Abstract
The common narrative about African Americans' quest for social justice and Civil Rights during the Twentieth Century consists, largely, of men and women working through organizations to bring about change. The typical list of organizations includes, inter alia, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Urban League, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. What are almost never included in this list are African American collegiate-based fraternities. However, at the turn of the Twentieth Century, a small group of organizations emerged and were founded on personal excellence, the development and sustaining of fictive-kinship ties, and racial uplift. Given these organizations' almost immediate creation of highly functioning alumni chapters in cities across the United States, members of these organizations, who were college graduates, could continue their work in actualizing their respective organizations' ideals. One such organization, founded at Howard University in 1914, was Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity. This article explores the history of this fraternity's, and its members', involvement in African Americans' quest for social justice and racial equality in the United States.
- Subjects
LEGAL status of African Americans; SOCIAL justice; CIVIL rights; NATIONAL Association for the Advancement of Colored People; NATIONAL Urban League; SOUTHERN Christian Leadership Conference
- Publication
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender & Class, 2016, Vol 16, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1554-4796
- Publication type
Article