Who is, and was, a Prince Hall Mason


This is a list of just SOME of the brothers that are affiliated with the Prince Hall Masonic Order.


1.Robert Sengstacke Abbott, founder/publisher CHICAGO DEFENDER
2.Richard Allen, founder/first bishop AME Church
3.James Herbert "Eubie" Blake, composer/pianist
4.William "Count" Basie, orchestra leader/composer
5.Thomas Bradley, mayor of Los Angeles, California
6.Nathaniel "Nat King" Cole, singer
7.W.E.B. DuBois, educator/author/historian
8.Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, orchestra leader/composer
9.Medger Wiley Evers, civil rights leader
10.James Forten, abolitionist/manufacturer
11.Timothy Thomas Fortune, journalist
12.Richard D. Gidron, president, Dick Gidron Cadillac
13.Alex Haley, author
14.William C. Handy, composer
15.Augustus F. Hawkins. U.S. Congressman California
16.Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader/composer
17.Matthew Henson, explorer
18.Benjamin L. Hooks, Former Executive Director NAACP
19.Daniel "Chappie" James, general U.S. Air Force
20.John H. Johnson, publisher EBONY and Jet magazines
21.Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
22.Benjamin Mays, educator/former president Atlanta University
23.Ralph H. Metcalfe, Olympic champion
24.A. Phillip Randolph, founder/ first president, Internat. Brotherhood Sleeping Car Porters
25.Charles B. Rangel, U.S. Congressman New York
26.Sugar Ray Robinson, mid/light heavy boxing champion
27.Carl B. Stokes, first Black elected mayor, Cleveland, OH
28.Louis Stokes, U.S. Congressman Ohio
29.Booker T. Washington, educator/founder Tuskegee Institute
30.Egbert Austin "Bert" Williams, actor/ comedian
31.Harry A. Williamson, author/Masonic historian
32.Andrew Young, former mayor of Atlanta

Don't worry! I will continue to add brothers to the list as I discover them to be such.