Freemasonry is one of the world's oldest fraternal organizations.
It is a society of men concerned with moral and spiritual values.
Members are taught its precepts by a series of ritual dramas that
follow ancient forms and employ the symbolism of stonemasonry.
Assuming its present form in England during the 18th century,
Freemasonry came to America with the colonists, and Freemasons have
played many roles in American history. When the author first
inquired about the admission of African Americans to Masonic
lodges, he was told: They have their own lodges. He later learned
that white Masons viewed black Masons not as separate but equal but
as irregular and clandestine. Nevertheless, he also learned that
members of the predominantly black Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodges
have held their heads high and practiced the ancient mysteries for
over two hundred years. There is now light at the end of the
tunnel. Since 1989, thirty-seven mainstream (white) Grand Lodges
have extended fraternal recognition to their Prince Hall
counterparts. It is our hope that we will eventually see the end of
the contradiction of a color line in an organization dedicated to
the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man.
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