African American fraternal organizations
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:
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 — Box 1, Folder: 1
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
Edgar Elliott Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World membership card collection, 1945-1965
Collection — Box 2: Series A2001-073-002, Folder: 1
Identifier: A2001-049
Fisher family Daughters of Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World papers, 1939-1986
Collection — Multiple Containers
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
Golden Jubilee souvenir journal issued by Grand Temple, 1949 August 20
Item — Box 5, Folder: 1
Identifier: A2024-048-001
Scope and Contents
The program is for the Golden Jubilee of the Grand Temple, Popularity Contest Department, August 20th - 26th, 1949 in San Francisco, CA. At the top of the cover is a handwritten note "Mid West Temple #120".
Dates:
1949 August 20
Found in:
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America. District Grand Household, No. 11 (Millwood, Va.)
Organization
Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America. District Grand Lodge, No. 18 (Atlanta, Ga.)
Organization