Black Freemasonry: From Prince Hall to the Giants of Jazz

Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Interpreting the Black Experience

PART ONE
The Genesis of Black Freemasonry
1 Prince Hall Legend and History 8
2 The Birth of Black Freemasonry
3 The Major Principles

PART TWO
A Militant Tradition
4 Abolitionism
5 Education
6 The Fight for Civil Rights

PART THREE
A Community Takes Control of Its Own Destiny
7 The Cooperative Ideal
8 Women and Black Freemasonry
9 Jazzmen and Black Artists

PART FOUR
The Parted Brothers
10 The Brothers Who Were Excluded in the Name of the Great Principles
11 The Racism of White Freemasons
12 Some Attempts to Come Together
13 Prince Hall and the French Masonic Obediences
14 The Perspective of Prince Hall Freemasons
The Separatist Temptation
15 The Caribbean Masonic Space
Between Prince Hall and Europe
CONCLUSION To Each His Own Path
AFTERWORD A Question of Democracy by René Le Moal

Appendices
APPENDIX I Original Prince Hall Charter, General Regulations, and Petitions
APPENDIX II “Heroines of Jericho”
APPENDIX III Letters
APPENDIX IV Prince Hall Grand Lodges
Notes
Bibliography of Masonic Speeches and Annals
Bibliography
Index