Famous Most Worshipful Prince Hall Masons
jaqueira2
he a Mason, it most surly list him.
Sam Schwarzman
Some Famous Prince Hall Masons
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1 Robert Sengstacke Abbott, founder/publisher CHICAGO DEFENDER
2 Richard Allen, founder/first bishop AME Church
3 James Herbert Eubie Blake, composer/pianist
4 William Count Basie, orchestra leader/composer
5 Thomas Bradley, mayor of Los Angeles, California
6 Nathaniel Nat King Cole, singer
7 W.E.B. DuBois, educator/author/historian
8 Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington, orchestra leader/composer
9 Medger Wiley Evers, civil rights leader
10 James Forten, abolitionist/manufacturer
11 Timothy Thomas Fortune, journalist
12 Richard D. Gidron, president, Dick Gidron Cadillac
13 Alex Haley, author
14 William C. Handy, composer
15 Augustus F. Hawkins. U.S. Congressman California
16 Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader/composer
17 Matthew Henson, explorer
18 Benjamin L. Hooks, Former Executive Director NAACP
19 Daniel Chappie James, general U.S. Air Force
20 John H. Johnson, publisher EBONY and Jet magazines
21 Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
22 Benjamin Mays, educator/former president Atlanta University
23 Ralph H. Metcalfe, Olympic champion
24 Rev. Al Sharpton, Black activist
25 Charles B. Rangel, U.S. Congressman New York
26 Sugar Ray Robinson, mid/light heavy boxing champion
27 Carl B. Stokes, first Black elected mayor, Cleveland, OH
28 Louis Stokes, U.S. Congressman Ohio
29 Booker T. Washington, educator/founder Tuskegee Institute
30 Egbert Austin Bert Williams, actor/ comedian
31 Rev./Dr. Martin Luther king Jr., civil rights leader
32 Harry A. Williamson, author/Masonic historian
33 Rev. Jesse Jackson, Black Activist/Civil rights leader
34 Andrew Young, former mayor of Atlanta
35 Rev. Al Green, Minister/ Singer
36 Scottie Pippen, basketball Star
37 T. P. Hearns, Comedian
38 Judge Joe Brown, TV Judge
39 Rev. Hosea Williams, Civil rights Activist
MasonTruth
>From: jaqu...@aol.com (jaqueira2)
>Date: 8/27/2003 7:33 PM Pacific Standard Time
>Message-id: <20030827233319...@mb-m02.aol.com>
>
I am not sure who put up this site but it has what seems to be an updated list
of famous P.H. Masons.
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1914/famous.html
S & F,
MasonTruth
Bro. Manny Blanco (W.M.)
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Moreno Valley, CA
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Kevin Angle
"MasonTruth" <mason...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Jim Bennie
(jaqueira2) wrote:
> This is from the New York MWPH web site, it does not list Louis Armstrong.
> Were he a Mason, it most surly list him.
I see MLK's name on the list and I thought it had been shown it was
his father, and not he, who belonged to the fraternity.
Jim Bennie
PM/DC, No. 44, Vancouver
jaqueira2
>I see MLK's name on the list and I thought it had been shown it was
>his father, and not he, who belonged to the fraternity.
Jim, the web site is refered to as "The Unofficial MWPHNY Grand Lodge web
site". The link is:
http://www.geocities.com/mwphglony/index.html
The web site lists the MWPHNY Grand Lodge as a "contact" for the web page so I
don't really know what "Unofficial" means. There is a lot of interesting
information on that site.
Sam Schwarzman
Peter Renzland
> I see MLK's name on the list and I thought it had been shown it was
> his father, and not he, who belonged to the fraternity.
Jim, last time you said that I informed you:
Spring 2000. Posthumously.
With consent of PHAmily.
PGM Barksdale, MWGLGA.
On 2002.12.27 -- perhaps that message didn't make it all the way. :-)
-- peter
Ed King
> In <20030827233319...@mb-m02.aol.com>, jaqu...@aol.com
> (jaqueira2) wrote:
> > This is from the New York MWPH web site, it does not list Louis Armstrong.
> > Were he a Mason, it most surly list him.
>
> I see MLK's name on the list and I thought it had been shown it was
> his father, and not he, who belonged to the fraternity.
Here's from my webpage at http://www.masonicinfo.com/famousnon.htm
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In May, 2000 - over 32 years AFTER his death and in an act which seems totally
unprecedented in Masonic history - a Past Grand Master of the Prince Hall
Grand Lodge of Georgia made King a "Mason at Sight". Such action runs counter
to all of the 'landmarks' and accepted usages of Freemasonry since making a
member of the fraternity posthumously violates the premise of the first
question normally proposed to a candidate, to wit: "Do you make this request
of your own free will and accord?". The practice of making a Mason 'at sight'
stems from the beginnings of Freemasonry when a Grand Master could waive all
normal requirements to pass through the degrees and declare, summarily, a man
to be a Mason. (It should be noted as well, however, that the practice is so
controversial in Freemasonry some Grand Lodges have specifically forbidden
their Grand Masters to do it while in others it has not been done for a
century or longer.) Other men who have been made Masons in this manner (and
we'd estimate the number at less than a hundred or so despite the tens of
millions of good men who have joined over the past three centuries) were so
declared only AFTER discussion with and agreement by them.
The Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Georgia has not, as of this
writing in March, 2003, been accepted as 'regular' by any 'mainstream' Masonic
Grand Lodge and this bizarre act may well cause problems for such acceptance
in the future. While we do not wish to editorialize, the actions by MW Bro.
Benjamin Barksdale (whom we have had the pleasure of meeting personally and
know to be a good man with a sincere and deep love of Freemasonry) are
abnormal in the extreme. His actions could not and cannot make a dead man a
Mason....
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<shrug>
Fraternally,
Ed King
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Gene Zippy
fumble through the typing of:
>26 Sugar Ray Robinson, mid/light heavy boxing champion
His son is past Master of a Lodge here in San Diego. Great guy! He
looks quite a bit like his dad, too.
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>From: "Kevin Angle" kan...@houston.rr.com
>Date: 8/28/2003 3:47 AM Pacific Standard Time
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>Boy am I glad Kobe wasn't on that list. Yhew
>
I am glad too.. One of the first reporters to give the news from Colorado is a
Mason, a Past Master in fact.
I saw him on the Fox News Special, noticed his ring, e-mailed him and he
kindly invited me to visit for an outside Degree.
Jim Bennie
No, it's got to be my memory (or I don't accept making dead men as
Masons :). Thanks for the reminder.
Kevin Angle
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Steve VanSlyck
had no defect of body that would prevent him from taking the degrees (the
old "perfect youth" standard of the long-long-ago.
Ed King
> At least they know the secret is safe doing it this way ;-)
Yeah, but it sure isn't gonna help increase lodge attendance - we hope.... <S>
Ed King
> I wonder how the investigation committee reported when certifying that he
> had no defect of body that would prevent him from taking the degrees (the
> old "perfect youth" standard of the long-long-ago.
Well, ostensibly the 'making a Mason at sight' would preclude the need for
any investigation of any kind. The Grand Master (who would have imagined that
a PAST Grand Master could do it too???) simply makes a statement - and the
fellow is a Mason, as equally entitled to sit in a lodge as you or I.
Steve VanSlyck
Can't do it outside even a corpse's presense, I would think.
Ed King
> But he never saw him - unless he did at at the [open casket] funeral!
> Can't do it outside even a corpse's presense, I would think.
Behold: the power of the Grand Master....
You have so much to learn, Grasshopper! <G,D,&R - REALLY fast!!!>