Order of the Eastern Star (Prince Hall Affiliation)

Scope and Contents Minute Book for Half Century Matrons Club, Order of Eastern Star, Prince Hall affiliation includes many topics: contact with the Urban League, cooperation with NAACP, fraternal invitations from Heroines of Jericho, Knights of the West, church of one of the members, Christmas dinner, controversy over whether to admit Past Patrons of OES, meeting with Masters and Wardens Association to raise funds for a Masonic Hall, their charity (assistance for under-resourced families at the local high...

Content Description

The collection of Peter B. C. Brown, Jr., spans the years 1963-1989, with the bulk of material dating from 1963 to 1968. The collection features approximately 105 items collected by Brown in his role at the Trinity Lodge, No. 18, and includes minutes of meetings, lodge records and correspondence, certificate, personal original writings and notes, personal finance papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, and Masonic pamphlets and ritual books.

Scope and Contents Collection includes 3 photographs, 3 membership cards issued to Verna Primm, programs, a draft ritual book, a letter regarding by-laws amendments, a print out of a "Farewell Address," and pages torn from an unknown printed source(s). The membership cards are issued to Verna Primm, and the "Farewell Address" is signed by Verna Primm, Worthy Matron, 1992. The two photographs of unidentified courts may include Verna Primm, though individuals are not labeled. The photograph of a man and woman...