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When the first Masonic lodges opened in Paris in the early 18th century their membership included traders, merchants, musketeers, clergymen, and women - both white and black. This was not the case in the United States where black Freemasons were not eligible for membership in existing lodges. For this reason the first official charter for an exclusively black lodge - the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts - was granted by the Grand Lodge of England rather than any American chapter. Through privileged access to archives kept by Grand Lodges, Masonic libraries, and museums in both the United States and Europe, respected Freemasonry historian Cecile Revauger traces the history of black Freemasonry from Boston and Philadelphia in the late 1700s through the Abolition Movement and the Civil War to the genesis of the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1900s up through the 1960s. Looking at the deep connections between jazz and Freemasonry, the author reveals how many of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century were also Masons. Unveiling the deeply social role at the heart of black Freemasonry, Revauger shows how the black lodges were instrumental in helping American blacks transcend the horrors of slavery and prejudice, achieve higher social status, and create their own solid spiritually based social structure, which in some cities arose prior to the establishment of black churches.
Contents
Foreword by Margaret C. Jacob, Ph.D. Foreword by Peter P. Hinks, Ph.D. Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION Interpreting the Black Experience PART ONE The Genesis of Black Freemasonry ONE Prince Hall Legend and History 8 TWO The Birth of Black Freemasonry THREE The Major Principles PART TWO A Militant Tradition FOUR Abolitionism FIVE Education SIX The Fight for Civil Rights PART THREE A Community Takes Control of Its Own Destiny SEVEN The Cooperative Ideal EIGHT Women and Black Freemasonry NINE Jazzmen and Black Artists PART FOUR The Parted Brothers TEN The Brothers Who Were Excluded in the Name of the Great Principles ELEVEN The Racism of White Freemasons TWELVE Some Attempts to Come Together THIRTEEN Prince Hall and the French Masonic Obediences FOURTEEN The Perspective of Prince Hall Freemasons The Separatist Temptation FIFTEEN The Caribbean Masonic Space Between Prince Hall and Europe CONCLUSION To Each His Own Path AFTERWORD A Question of Democracy by Rene Le Moal Appendices APPENDIX I Original Prince Hall Charter, General Regulations, and Petitions APPENDIX II "Heroines of Jericho" APPENDIX III Letters APPENDIX IV Prince Hall Grand Lodges Notes Bibliography of Masonic Speeches and Annals Bibliography Index
