Black Freemasonry by Révauger, Cécile -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Image Title Page Epigraph Acknowledgments Table of Contents Foreword By Margaret C. Jacob, Ph.D. Foreword By Peter P. Hinks, Ph.D. Introduction: Interpreting the Black Experience Part One: The Genesis of Black Freemasonry

Chapter 1: Prince Hall Legend and History Chapter 2: The Birth of Black Freemasonry

African Lodge n° 459 The First Black Grand Lodges

Chapter 3: The Major Principles

An Oral Culture The Promotion of Work

Part Two: A Militant Tradition

Chapter 4: Abolitionism

Prince Hall, Abolitionist Black Mason Abolitionism between 1800 and 1860 The Civil War The Memory of Slavery

Chapter 5: Education

Prince Hall and His Colleagues The Boston Prince Hall Freemasons in the Nineteenth Century Two Pioneers in the Field of Education From the Beginning of the Twentieth Century to the Present

Chapter 6: The Fight for Civil Rights

Part Three: A Community Takes Control of Its Own Destiny

Chapter 7: The Cooperative Ideal

Mutual-Aid Societies Charity or Mutual Aid? The Other Forms of Mutual Assistance The Mutual-Aid Banks The Difficult Relationships with White Organizations

Chapter 8: Women and Black Freemasonry

History of Female Organizations The Relations with the Prince Hall Grand Lodges The Women’s Activities Recent Developments

Chapter 9: Jazzmen and Black Artists

The Racist Context and Social Ascent of Jazzmen The Musicians in Society Involvement in the Fight against Discrimination Several Talented Mason Brothers

Part Four: The Parted Brothers

Article III of Anderson’s Constitutions The Validity of the Charter The Principle of Territorial Exclusivity

Chapter 11: The Racism of White Freemasons

The Living Legends of White Freemasonry Civil Remarks Openly Racist Remarks

Chapter 12: Some Attempts to Come Together

Individual Initiatives The Attempts by Two Grand Lodges to Recognize Prince Hall Freemasonry Several Foreign Masons to the Rescue The Ambiguities of the United Grand Lodge of England Recent Developments

Chapter 13: Prince Hall and the French Masonic Obediences

Several Attempts during the First World War A Favorable Context for the Coming Together of Prince Hall and the Grand Orient The Obstacles Attempts at Rapprochement The Current Situation

Chapter 14: The Perspective of Prince Hall Freemasons

The Status of the Prince Hall Grand Lodges in American Society The “Troops” Black Masons in Their Community Relations with the Other American Grand Lodges Today

Chapter 15: The Caribbean Masonic Space

The Planters’ Lodges on the Sugar Islands From Abolition to Emancipation A Diversified Masonic Landscape in the Caribbean Today

Conclusion: To Each His Own Path

Mimicry Freemasons and Proud of It Exclusion and Its Opposite A Simple Barber Recruiting Crisis Social Progress Good Conscience on Both Sides

Afterword: A Question of Democracy by René Le Moal Appendices

Appendix I: Original Prince Hall Charter, General Regulations, and Petition Appendix II: “Heroines of Jericho” Appendix III: Letters Appendix IV: Prince Hall Grand Lodges

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