Greetings,
I'm a proud member of Prince Masonry (13 years) The establishment of, what is now called Prince Hall Masonry, then African Lodge #459, was founded in 1784 as African Lodge #1 and then after receiving its charter in 1787 became an offical Masonic body and ultimately, not only the first official African-American organization in this country, but also the first African-American fraternal order for African-American men.
In fact, if one could reflect on that time period, with all the overt oppresion against African-American people (pre-emanicipation proclamation), you had a man named Prince Hall and 14 other Black men, one, get initiated into a
British Lodge and ultimately attaining their own legitmacy as a proper Masonic body in Boston, Massachusetts. Simply fascinating history.
We're often called the "Father Of All" in terms of BGLO's because many founders of those groups were Masons prior to forming those undergraduate groups.
I'm the webmaster for our Michigan Prince Hall website -- there's a lot of information on this very intrguing and legendary fraternity:
http://www.miphgl.org
Jay
Jay
Prince Hall / Prince Hall Masonry
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