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8%OFFCécile Révauger - Black Freemasonry: From Prince Hall to the Giants of Jazz - 9781620554876 - V9781620554876
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Black Freemasonry: From Prince Hall to the Giants of Jazz

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Description for Black Freemasonry: From Prince Hall to the Giants of Jazz Hardback. The history of black Freemasonry from Boston and Philadelphia in the late 1700s through the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. Num Pages: 320 pages, 29 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 1KBBES; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSL3; JFSV1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Inner Traditions Bear and Company United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Rochester, United States
ISBN
9781620554876
SKU
V9781620554876
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About Cécile Révauger
Cécile Révauger is a respected historian of Freemasonry and a professor at the University of Bordeaux. The author of several books on Freemasonry in French, she lives in the Bordeaux region of Southern France.

Reviews for Black Freemasonry: From Prince Hall to the Giants of Jazz
“Eminently qualified to write about black Freemasonry, Cécile Révauger depicts with great accuracy how the split of American Freemasonry along racial lines arose and how it still persists, despite some progress within contemporary society. She also perfectly analyzes why it still remains difficult today to overcome prejudices, which are part of a legacy from the Founding Fathers. Her remarkable impartiality ... Read more

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