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1886 Rare Defense Of Black Freemasons
1886 Rare Defense Of Black Freemasons
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Author: Clark, Samuel W.
Title: Defense Of Black Freemasons
Place Published: Louisville, Kentucky
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Date Published: 1886
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Samuel W. Clark. The Negro Mason in Equity : a public address authorized by the M.W. Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons for the state of Ohio and its jurisdiction, for the purpose of placing before the world the historical facts upon which the Negro mason in America bases his claim to legitimacy and consequent rights (Louisville, Kentucky, 1886) First and only Edition. 69pp. Lacking a frontispiece portrait which appears in the Schomburg Collection copy. Inscription on title-page, a presentation to Masonic historian Roger W. Clegg.



Though Negro Masonry dated to the earliest years of the American Republic, Blacks were not only excluded from white Masonic lodges – which exercised considerable political power – but were not even recognized as “legal” Masons in their own right. In this booklet, Clark, Principal of a Black school in Cincinnati, aimed to turn the “fierce light of recorded history” on this “false, unjust and un-Masonic” racism. Very rare. Not in Blockson. OCLC locates two institutional copies.

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Some wear to the binding, otherwise very good.
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