International Supreme Council of World Masons

Scope and Contents

This folder contains correspondence between Newbury and others about and with clandestine groups. The majority of the correspondence is on irregular African American Masonic organizations that are not reconginzed by Prince Hall Freemasonry. Of particular interest is the petition for recongition by the Supreme Council 33rd Degree Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite for the Atlantic Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States of America Grand Orient of Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands.

Scope and Contents This folder contains corrrespondence between Bushnell and others about and with clandestine groups. The folder mentions several African American clandestine organizations with which Bushnell discusses with George W. Crawford, Sovereign Grand Commander, United Supreme Council, Prince Hall Affiliation, Northern Jurisdiction. It also contains correspondence on irregular groups in Europe. Of particular interest is a letter from Ray V. Denslow outlining clandestine groups in Michigan in 1955, the...

Scope and Contents

This file contains correspondence with Stanley F. Maxwell and others on and with clandestine Masonic organizations. The majority of the folder contains correspondence with and about the Supreme Council, Atlantic Masonic Jurisdiction, Grand Orient of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Raymond A. Martinez, Sovereign Grand Commander, has been writing the Supreme Council about this organization from Bushnell to Maxwell seeking recognition.