Brown, Charles Ignatius
1885-1981 · Contribution: 1914-1981
Education
Co-founded Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity in 1914; his fate remained a decades-long mystery within the fraternity until researchers located his final resting place in 2015
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Brown helped establish an enduring Black fraternity and hand-picked its founding class, then became a piece of its living folklore, a lost founder whose commitment was confirmed nearly a century later.
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- Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. (official history)
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