deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial and a bomb killed four Black girls and injured others at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Kennedy sent the National Guard to the campus more than 250,000 people marched on Washington and listened to Martin Luther King Jr. Wallace blocked two Black students from registering at the University of Alabama, until President John F. In the summer of 1963, the national civil rights movement reached a feverish pitch when Alabama Gov. Petersburg its first Black lawyer, a chemist who helped develop the strobe light used in photography, the first president of Gibbs Junior College, principals who opened new elementary and junior high schools for Black children, and the first Black fellow of the Florida Historical Society, among many other achievements on behalf of Black residents of Pinellas County. Petersburg and Clearwater to Bradenton, Plant City and many other Tampa Bay area communities – before 1963, Sigma Men gave St. have lived the fraternity’s motto – “Culture for Service and Service to Humanity” – by helping shape and lift communities across Pinellas County as great places to live, work and play for all.Īffiliated with the Gamma Eta Sigma chapter – which stretched from Tampa to St. Whether in civil rights, education, economic development, sports or national defense, the men of the Delta Omicron Sigma chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. The History of Delta Omicron Sigma 'Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, let us march on till victory is won.”-James Weldon Johnson, composer of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” Florida native and brother of Phi Beta Sigma

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