African American fraternal organizations
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
74th Annual Session of the New Jersey State Association and Ladies Auxiliary of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World program, 1970
Item
Identifier: A2023-150-001
76th anniversary annual Thanksgiving services flyer and program, 1919
Item
Identifier: A2021-068-001
Amateur minstrels show handbill, 1907 February 25
Item
Identifier: A2017-019-001
Content Description
Amateur minstrels show handbill. Dated February 25, 1907. This small handbill publicizes an amateur minstrels show held for the "benefit of the Colored Odd Fellows." Wilbur Miles, a world-renowned entertainer, headlined the show. Includes an envelope addressed to William Russ of Clarksburg, West Virginia.
Dates:
1907 February 25
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
Ancient United Knights and Daughters of Africa collection, 1928-1929
Collection
Identifier: A2000-020
Calendar issued by the District Grand Lodge, No. 21A, of Louisiana, 1961
Item
Identifier: A2025-012-001
Constitution and by-laws of Monarch Lodge, No. 45, 1955
Item
Identifier: A2023-153-001
Daughters of Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks certificate issued to Annie Hawell by Melba Temple, No. 445, 1961 December 14
Item
Identifier: A2023-127-001
Death benefits certificate issued by District Grand Lodge, No. 18, to Cornelia Hill, 1913 June 1
Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A2020-017-001
Content Description
A death benefits certificate issued by District Grand Lodge, No. 18, of Atlanta, Georgia, to Cornelia Hill of Winder, Georgia. Dated June 1, 1913. In this document, Cornelia Hill, a member of the Winder Household of Ruth, No. 1445, purchases death benefits to be paid out to her husband in the event of her death. In 1843, Peter Ogden, "a person of color who traveled between New York and Liverpool, England," as a steward on a ship, founded the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, an African...
Dates:
1913 June 1
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
Draft of the Incorporation of the Knights and Daughters of Liberty, circa 1850
Item
Identifier: A2006-007-002
Scope and Contents
A.J. Scott, A.W. Chisum, Simon Sales, Proffit Sales, and Phillip Williams request incorporation of a group they represent as the "Knights and Daughters of Liberty as authorized by the laws of the state of Arkansas." Originally a secret African-American society in 1846 that worked toward abolition, the organization later bacame a fraternal group.
Dates:
circa 1850
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
Fisher family Daughters of Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World papers, 1939-1986
Collection — Exhibit
Identifier: A2024-018-001
Scope and Contents
Materials include several souvenir programs from various fraternal organizations and women's auxiliary groups including the N.A.P.E and their Women's Auxiliary, Grand United Order of Oddfellows, Daughters of I.B.P.O.E.W, I.B.P.O.E.W., Lay Organization of the St. James A.M.E. Church in Cleveland, and Amaranth Grand Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star of Ohio. A souvenir journal commemorating the John Brown Memorial Farm is a notable inclusion, along with The John Brown Reader (transferred to...
Dates:
1939-1986; Majority of material found within 1950-1953
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library