Woodson, founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), Charles R. They have included such scholars and academic, cultural, and civil rights leaders as W.E.B. Throughout its existence its membership has included some of the most distinguished men in the world.
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Thus, membership in the fraternity was in the beginning, and continues to be, extended selectively to outstanding men who are, at a minimum, college graduates with recognized professional accomplishments and a record of demonstrable commitment to the enhancement of black communities and their members.įrom an initial membership of six founders located in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity has grown to presently include over 5,000 active members who are affiliated with 139 member boulés (chapters) located throughout the United States and in the Bahamas and the United Kingdom. Rather, the emphasis of membership has always been on quality, not quantity. Growth of the fraternity since its founding has been deliberately slow as it was not conceived to be a large, indiscriminate body of men. Yet, throughout its life, in addition to the personal strength derived from the camaraderie shared by its members, the fraternity has embraced and remains committed to enhancing and elevating black communities by striving to eliminate barriers therein to civic, social, political, educational, and economic well-being through its social action programs and public policy initiatives. Today the Fraternity can be considered private and, as was the case during its early years of existence, it avoids self-perpetuating publicity. In its early years and throughout most of its existence, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity was a quiet, secret organization. Members of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity and their Wives at the 15th Annual Grand Boulé, Atlanta, Georgia, August 13, 1937 Minton and was refined and enthusiastically supported by the other founders.
The basic idea of the Fraternity was conceived by Henry M. Jackson, M.D., the first African American graduate of the Jefferson Medical School, Edwin Clarence Joseph Turpin Howard, M.D., who in 1869 was one of the first two black graduates of the Harvard Medical School, Richard John Warrick, D.D.S., a graduate of the Philadelphia School of Dental Surgery, Eugene Theodore Hinson, M.D., a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Robert Jones Abele, M.D., the first black graduate of Philadelphia’s then Hahnemann Medical College, which is now Drexel University College of Medicine. They were: Henry McKee Minton, a registered pharmacist and second year student at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s Jefferson Medical School, Algernon B. These men recognized the advantages of belonging to a special fraternity that would enhance and support professional careers and social relationships while simultaneously providing leadership and assistance to facilitate the enhancement and elevation of such underserved black communities as those from which they mostly came and in which they professionally existed.
Its founders were six exceptional men, four medical doctors, one dentist and one pharmacist, who at that time was a second-year medical school student. Reed, former Grand Sire Archon of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity and author of A Grand Journey: The History of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, 1904-2010, briefly outlines the history of the oldest continuously existing Black Greek-letter fraternity in the United States.įounded on May 15, 1904, Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, also known as the Boulé, which in Ancient Greece was a “Council of Chiefs,” is the oldest continuously existing Greek-letter post-graduate fraternity originally founded by, and primarily for, eminent black professional men and later similar professional men of African descent throughout the world.
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