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Clandestine Masonry

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 255 Collections and/or Records:

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, 1890-1908

 Item — Box 453
Identifier: GL2004-8786
Scope and Contents

Collection of clippings on Masonic events and issues, particularly irregular lodges and organizations entitled "Spurious Rites." There is a brief index by topic at back of this scrapbook

Dates: 1890-1908

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, 1888

 Item — Box 405
Identifier: GL2004-5642
Scope and Contents

Partially filled scrapbook of articles on Freemasonry, specifically Cerneauism

Dates: 1888

Sovereign Chapter Treble Alliance, 1814

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A2016-056

Spurious Colored Masonry, 1945

 File — Box 99, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to questionable charter application in Wisconsin. George W. Crawford, Grand Commander (Prince Hall) advised that they should not be recognized.

Dates: 1945

State Grand Lodge : violation of occupied territory by Theodore S. Houston, 1955

 Item
Identifier: A2019-156-001
Content Description

This document purports that African-American State Grand Lodges are in open violation of Masonic law. Houston, an African-American, was the Sovereign Grand Master of Lodges of the U. S. A.

Dates: 1955

Statute in regard to spurious Masons of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, after 1882

 File — Box 7
Identifier: A2019-178-0242
Scope and Contents

A circular letter from Secretary General William M. Ireland entitled "A Statute in regard to spurious Masons of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite," dated after 1882. In this document, Irelands announces the enactment of a statute that warns Freemasons of the Southern Jurisdiction of the penalty for uniting with spurious Scottish Rite bodies.

Dates: after 1882

Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, clandestine Masonry files, 1927-1988

 Collection
Identifier: A1992-105
Scope and Contents This collection, spanning from 1927-1988, contains correspondence by the Sovereign Grand Commanders of the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdicition, with and about what they consider clandestine, or illegitimate, Masonic organizations. The majority of the collection is on African American Masonic organizations that the United Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, Prince Hall Affiliation do not consider legitimate. There is correspondence between the United Supreme Council...
Dates: 1927-1988