Prince Hall Freemasonry, a Black branch of Masons, is an organization with long roots dug deep into the ground of Boston. Those roots have spread with 300,000 members, nearly 5,000 lodges and 47 grand ...

Prince Hall Freemasonry was founded in 1784 by a former slave named Prince Hall and formally dates to the mid-19th century in California. Philomathean Lodge No. 2 in downtown Sacramento is one of ...

Masons were very prominent among the 10,000 black Marylanders who fought for the Union. Major Martin Dulany, a Prince Hall Mason, became the highest-ranking black officer in the Union Army.

Prince Hall was one of 15 free Black men who were rejected by the Masonic lodge in Boston. They were accepted by the Irish lodge, attached to the 38th British Foot Infantry in Boston Harbor.

“Prince Hall Free Masonry was established on March 6, 1775, when Prince Hall and 14 other African Americans were made masons in an Irish lodge that was attached to the British troops that were ...

Prince Hall Freemasonry was founded in 1784 by a former slave named Prince Hall and formally dates to the mid-19th century in California. Philomathean Lodge No. 2 in downtown Sacramento is one of ...

On March 6, 1775, Prince Hall, along with 14 other men of color, was initiated into the Fraternal Order of Freemasons by an Irish military official who had ties to the British crown.

Hall’s lodge functioned as an unofficial Masonic society—African Lodge No. 1—but received a formal charter only after a request was sent to England for a warrant.

The Prince Hall Masonic Lodge on Auburn Avenue, built in 1940 and the first home to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the first Black-owned radio station, ...

The old Prince Hall Masonic Lodge Temple on Auburn Avenue has seen better days. Closed since the pandemic, lodge members have been trying for five years to raise millions to renovate the 86-year ...

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