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This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

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Description: Official history of freemasonry among the colored people in North America : tracing the growth of masonry from 1717 down to the present day, bringing to light many interesting facts unknown to the great body of the Craft : also giving an account of the introduction of Freemasonry into America, its origin and practice among Negroes, the establishment of Subordinate and Grand Lodges, Royal Arch Chapters, Commanderies, the Scottish Rite, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and the Ancient Rite of Memphis, with its ninety-seven degrees, to which is appended much general information tending to show the progress of the race in citizenship, business, education, wealth, with the names of prominent Americans who have become famous in Craft and other walks of like
Names: Grimshaw, Wm. H. (William Henry), 1848-1927 (Author)
Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1903; Place: New York ; London; Publisher: Broadway Publishing Company
Library locations: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division; Shelf locator: Sc 366.11-G
Topics: African American freemasons; African American freemasonry
Genres: Portraits; Photographs; Prints
Physical Description: Extent: Xi, vi-xi, 392 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Type of Resource: Still image
Identifiers: RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR13619661-B; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11781236; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 8ae920b0-c6b9-012f-45ce-58d385a7bc34