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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION | ||||||
2 | WHEREAS, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. was founded at | ||||||
3 | Howard University in Washington D.C. on January 9, 1914 by | ||||||
4 | three African American students, A. Langston Taylor, Leonard | ||||||
5 | F. Morse, and Charles I. Brown, who united to form a fraternity | ||||||
6 | that would exemplify the ideals of brotherhood, scholarship, | ||||||
7 | and service; and
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8 | WHEREAS, The founders of Phi Beta Sigma offered support | ||||||
9 | and encouragement to Arizona Cleaver Stemons, Pearl Anna Neal, | ||||||
10 | Myrtle Tyler Faithful, Viola Tyler Goings, and Fannie Pettie | ||||||
11 | Watts as they founded Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. at Howard | ||||||
12 | University on January 16, 1920 to raise people's | ||||||
13 | consciousness, encourage scholastic achievement, and foster | ||||||
14 | unity among members, making Phi Beta Sigma and Zeta Phi Beta | ||||||
15 | the first fraternity and sorority to be constitutionally bound | ||||||
16 | to each other; and
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17 | WHEREAS, Phi Beta Sigma brothers believe that each member | ||||||
18 | and potential member should be judged by their own merits, | ||||||
19 | rather than family background, affluence, race, nationality, | ||||||
20 | skin tone, or hair texture, and should work to return newly | ||||||
21 | acquired skills to the communities from which they come, with | ||||||
22 | this conviction mirrored in the fraternity's motto, Culture | ||||||
23 | For Service and Service For Humanity; and
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1 | WHEREAS, Phi Beta Sigma brothers contributed greatly to | ||||||
2 | the literary and artistic movement known as the Harlem | ||||||
3 | Renaissance, to the cause of civil rights, civic engagement, | ||||||
4 | and freedom, and to the sciences; membership has included | ||||||
5 | writer Alain LeRoy Locke, poet and diplomat James Weldon | ||||||
6 | Johnson, workers rights activist A. Philip Randolph, scientist | ||||||
7 | George Washington Carver, astronaut Victor Glover, Congressman | ||||||
8 | Elijah Cummings, Congressman John Lewis, and Nnamdi Azikiwe, | ||||||
9 | the first president of independent Nigeria; and
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10 | WHEREAS, Zeta Phi Beta was the first Black greek-lettered | ||||||
11 | organization to centralize its operations in a national | ||||||
12 | headquarters, the first to charter a chapter in Africa, and | ||||||
13 | the first to form auxiliary groups and currently boasts | ||||||
14 | hundreds of chapters worldwide and over 100,000 members who | ||||||
15 | seek to upload its ideals of Scholarship, Service, Sisterhood, | ||||||
16 | and Finer Womanhood; and
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17 | WHEREAS, Zeta Phi Beta sisters contributed greatly to the | ||||||
18 | literary and artistic movement known as the Harlem | ||||||
19 | Renaissance, to the cause of civil rights, civic engagement, | ||||||
20 | and freedom, and to the sciences; membership has included | ||||||
21 | writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, attorney | ||||||
22 | Violette Anderson, educator Dr. Elizabeth Koontz, journalist | ||||||
23 | and media entrepreneur Clara McLaughlin, and psychiatrist and |
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1 | substance abuse treatment expert Dr. Alyce Gullattee; | ||||||
2 | therefore, be it
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3 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
4 | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
5 | we commend the efforts of the members of Zeta Phi Beta | ||||||
6 | Sorority, Inc. and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. for their | ||||||
7 | commitment to community service and recognize their collective | ||||||
8 | contributions to making their communities a better place to | ||||||
9 | live, play, and work; and be it further
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