{"id":72,"date":"2022-10-24T06:53:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T01:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aasrphasj.org\/index.php\/notable-prince-hall-masons\/"},"modified":"2023-10-16T21:44:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T16:44:11","slug":"notable-prince-hall-masons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.aasrphasj.org\/notable-prince-hall-masons\/","title":{"rendered":"Notable Prince Hall Masons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n
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NOTABLE PRINCE HALL MASONS<\/h3>\n

Bro. Robert Abbot - Founder of the Chicago Defender
Bro. Richard Allen - Founder\/first Bishop of the A.M.E. Church
Bro. Alexander T. Augusta - First African-American to head a hospital\n in the U.S.
Bro. Marion Barry - Former Mayor of Washington, D.C.
Bro. William \"Count\" Basie - Orchestra leader\/composer
Bro. James J.G. Bias - Founder of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee
Bro. Henry Blair - First Black\n to receive a U.S. patent
Bro. James Herbert \"Eubie\" Blake - Composer\/Pianist
Bro. Edward Bouchet - First Black to be elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society
Bro. William Wells Brown - First Black to publish a novel
Bro. Nathaniel\n \"Nat King\" Cole - Singer
Bro. Ossie Davis - Actor\/Director\/Playwrite
Bro. Martin R. Delany - First Black to matriculate from Harvard Medical School\/First Black Major in the U.S. Army
Bro. W.E.B. DuBois - Educator\/author\/historian
Bro. Alexander Dumas - Author
Bro. Edward Kennedy \"Duke\" Ellington - Orchestra leader\/composer
Bro. Medgar Wiley Evers - Civil Rights leader
Bro. James Forten - Abolitionist\/manufacturer
Bro. Timothy Thomas Fortune - Journalist
Bro. Larry Gibson - Author, Civil Rights Advocate, Attorney
Bro. Alex Haley - Author
Bro. William C. Handy - Composer
Bro. Matthew Henson - Explorer
Bro. Benjamin L. Hooks - Former Executive Director of the N.A.A.C.P.
Bro. Jesse Jackson - Founder of the Rainbow Coalition and Operation\n Push
Bro. Maynard Jackson - First black Mayor of Atlanta
Bro. John H. Johnson - Publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines
Bro. Jack Johnson - First Black heavyweight boxing champion in U.S.
Bro. Absalom Jones - First Black Priest\n in the Episcopal Church in U.S.
Bro. Dr. Ernest Everett Just - One of the founders of Omega Psi Phi and renowned zoologist
Bro. Don King - Boxing promoter
Bro. Lewis Howard Latimer - Inventor of the carbon filament for light
Bro. Thurgood Marshall - Former Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
Bro. Amos T. Hall Former Judge  and Lawyer for the NACCP Bro. Benjamin E. Mays - Former President of Morehouse College
Bro. Leon M'Ba - First President\n of the Republic of Gabon
Bro. Kweisi Mfume \u2013 Former Executive Director of the N.A.A.C.P., United States Congressman
Bro. Richard Pryor - Comedian\/Actor
Bro. Alexander Pushkin - Poet\/Novelist\/Play write
Bro. A. Philip Randolph - Founder and First\n President of the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Bro. Charles Rangel - U.S. Congressman
Bro. Joseph Jenkins Robert s -First President of the Republic of Liberia
Bro. \"Sugar\u201d Ray Robinson - Former mid\/light\n heavyweight boxing champion
Bro. Arthur A. Schomburg - Historian\/Author
Rev. Bro. Al Sharpton - Civil Rights Advocate
Bro. Carl B. Stokes - First Black Mayor of Cleveland, OH
Bro. Louis Stokes - Former U.S. Congressman
Bro. David Walker - Author of \"David Walker's Appeal
Bro. Booker T. Washington - Educator and Fonder of the Tuskegee University\/Institute
Bro. Daniel Hale Williams - First surgeon to perform open heart surgery
Bro. Bert Williams\n - Actor\/Comedian
Bro. Granville T. Woods - Inventor
Bro. Andrew Young - Former Mayor of Atlanta and U.N. Ambassador
Bro. Lawrence Douglass Wilder - The First Black elected Governor in this country from Virginia.
Bro. Dr.\n Charles H. Wesley - Prince Hall Historian\/Author \/Ordained A.M.E Minister\/ Educator
Bro. Joseph A. Walkes, Jr - Historian\/Author of Black Square & \nCompass \/ Prince Hall Masonic Quiz Book\/ History Of The Shrine\/History \nOf The United\n Supreme Council A.A.S.R.          \n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n \n \n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NOTABLE PRINCE HALL MASONS Bro. Robert Abbot – Founder of the Chicago Defender Bro. Richard Allen – Founder\/first Bishop of the A.M.E. Church Bro. Alexander T. Augusta – First African-American to head a hospital in the U.S. Bro. Marion Barry – Former Mayor of Washington, D.C. Bro. William “Count” Basie – Orchestra leader\/composer Bro. James … Continue reading “Notable Prince Hall Masons”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aasrphasj.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aasrphasj.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aasrphasj.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aasrphasj.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aasrphasj.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aasrphasj.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aasrphasj.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}