The International Order of Twelve Knights of Tabor, Militant Black Freemasonry [ Preview 2 ]

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🗓️ 24 September 2021

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The Freemasonic History of the United States VIII: 1880-1891 This is a preview clip to Part VIII Of the Freemasonic History of the United States. To access the full 14 hour episode become a subscriber to Media Roots Radio on Patreon @ www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio 20 years after the Civl War, save for a few rare instances of integration, Freemasonry across the country was still segregated into seperate black Prince Hall Lodges and causasian Blue Lodges. There was more recognition of black Prince Hall Freemasonry by the European grand lodges than there was from any white official Masonic body in the United States at this time. Particularly in the South, black Freemasons were not only up against an erasure of their Masonic charter by Southern white Masons but faced openly racist dehumanizing public deunciations from the highest white Masonic authorities in Mississipi and Missouri. Some Prince Hall Freemasons expressed their abolitionist views using militant rhetoric pre-Civil War and others like Moses Dickson would claim he led an army of hudreds of thousands of slaves trained in secret to rise up against all slave owners. Organizations that were Freemasonic in nature but were paralell to Prince Hall like the International Order of Twelve Knights of Tabor had now grown to 100,000 members and other organizations like the Moorish Science Temple of America were about to emerge; This is part of a larger in-depth history podcast series that covers the span of American Freemasonry and all of its associated occult and fraternal organizations from 1776 - 1900. Credits: Writing, Editing, Production, Research, Narration: Robbie Martin Research Assistant: Amanda Compton Additional Research: Laurie Kirchner Additional Research: Daniel Wright Original Music: 'In the Gilded Halls', 'For Jahbulon, for Glory’ by: Alex Freer 'Within the Damp Caverns', 'Cave' 'Grand Hall’ by: Eliza Mitchell FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio The Freemasonic History of the United States VIII : 1: Weaving Spiders, the Cremation of Care, Clandestine Memphis Misraim Rites & Cagliostro 3 hrs 24 mins 2: The International Order of Twelve Knights of Tabor, Militant Black Freemasonry & Pope Leo XIII 3 hrs 58 mins 3: The Golden Dawn, Enochian Magic, Occult Sciences, Spiritualist Scams & Hoaxes 2 hrs 48 mins 4: The Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret, Esoterika & the Legacy of General Albert Pike Grand Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry 33rd ° 4 hrs 36 mins

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0:00.0	Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is Robbie Martin. You are listening to a preview clip to the free masonic history of the United States, Part 8.
0:13.8	This is part of an ongoing series where we explore free masonry and all of its associated fraternal and esoteric secret societies.
0:43.4	Now we haven't talked much yet about black Freemasonry in the United States and where it was during the late 1800s.
0:48.6	Well, in the book, A History of Freemasonry among Negroes in America by Harry E. Davis.
0:55.6	He said that one of the most pivotal black Masonic lodges to arise in the United States
1:01.4	since the actual Prince Hall Africa Lodge, the original one,
1:07.6	was what was called the Alpha Lodge of Newark, New Jersey.
1:12.9	Harry E. Davis says,
1:14.3	This should be known to every student of Masonic history in the United States,
1:19.0	for it bears the unique distinction of being the only lodge here made up of both white and colored masons,
1:25.8	and affiliated with a white Grand grand lodge. Generally, it is
1:30.3	classed as a colored lodge. It has been charged that its charter was obtained by a species
1:36.7	of trickery. But there is no doubt that the proceedings incident to its organization were quite
1:43.5	regular.
1:45.2	There is evidence, however, of a concealed design on the part of its sponsors,
1:49.6	although they did nothing illegal.
1:52.7	It's a little bit confusing exactly what transpired, but Harry E. Davis says,
1:56.6	At the 1870 communication of the Grand Lodge,
2:00.0	a petition from F. H. Schwartz, Jeremiah Evans,
2:03.0	and 10 other Prince Hall-Masons, asking for a warrant for Cushite Lodge, Newark, was received
2:09.1	and referred to a special committee. The petition was denied in 1871 on recommendation
2:14.3	of the committee, not, however, because of patent technical defects in the
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