PHYLAXIS NOTES

Published Monthly by The Phylaxis Society Public Affairs Office
and Masonic Information Center
October - November 1998

Bro. Ellington was a member of Social Lodge No. 1, Washington, D.C. The Duke Ellington School of the Arts is the only public school in the country that bears his name. Started in Washington, D.C. in 1974 the year of his death, its graduates are in the American Ballet Theater, in movies, on stage and on the professional jazz scene. Former Los Angles Mayor Bro. Tom Bradley 33^"was, hailed at his funeral service as a sharecroppers son who transformed the nation's second biggest city into a modem metropolis. Vice President Gore addressed 1,700 mourners crammed into the First A.M.E. Church and praised Bradley for making Los Angeles one of the greatest cities. Bro Bradley age 80, was the city's first black mayor and served an unprecedented 20 years. In 1978 he welcomed the United Supreme Council 330 A.A.S.R., Southern Jurisdiction to his city for its 92nd annual convocation. He retired in 1993. Bro Kweisa Mfume, President and CEO of the NAACP was arrested on the steps of the United States Supreme Court, when nearly 1,000 civil rights and labor activists converged on the court, united in anger over the failure of the justices to hire more than a handful of minorities as law clerks. Fewer than 2% of the 394 law clerks hired by the justices during their entire tenure were African-Americans. Bro Mfume of Mount Olive Lodge No. 25, Baltimore Maryland. was arrested when he tried to deliver resumes of minority law clerk candidates. Retiring after 30 years in the U. S. House of Representatives, Cleveland Congressman Bro. Louis Stokes 33^"boast a host of facilities that bear his name - a school auditorium, library wing, a bridge, a street , a huge telecommunications center and a health science library. He has also picked up 24 honorary degrees along with a host of scholarships and programs which bear his name. Bro. Oscar Roberts, Jr. FPS 33^"of Kansas City, Missouri was named the 1998 Man of the Year by the Phylaxis Society and his picture appears on the front cover of the Phylaxis Magazine. Looking back: October 16, 1973, Bro. Maynard Jackson 33^"of H. R. Butler Lodge No. 23 was elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. He was 35 years old, and became one of the youngest mayors to ever be elected and the first Black mayor of a major Southern City. October 27, 1981, Bro. Andrew Young 33^""of St. James Lodge No. 4 succeeded Bro Maynard Jackson as mayor of Atlanta and won re-election in 1985. Young formerly served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under President Jimmy Carter in 1976 and was a U. S. Congressman from Georgia from 1972 to 1976. He is currently chairman of Good Works International, an international consulting firm. The latest book by President Joseph A. Walkes, Jr., The History of the United Supreme Council 33^""A.A.S.R., Northern Jurisdiction, PHA, USA has been released and on sale by the Supreme Council in Philadelphia.

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	Eli Baker Lodge No. 62 F&AM
	Men of Wisdom Hall No. 57 P.H.A.
	James Abron's Prince Hall Mason Home Page
	Gregory Hunt's "Prince Hall Masonic Information"
	Candido Caraballo's "A New York City Prince Hall Mason."
	Details about Recognition of Prince Hall Masonry
	Silver Square Lodge No. 791 (P.H.A.)
	A Proud Prince Hall Mason Carlton Calhoun's Prince Hall Information Page
	Kindah Temple No. 62 A.E.A.O.N.M.S.
	York Rite Freemasonry, PHA, Jurisdiction of Georgia
	Prince Hall Scottish Rite Valley of Atlanta
	Nebraska's (Unofficial) PHS Masonic Site
	W. C. Thomas Lodge No. 112, Atlanta, Ga.
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	District 10 Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Washington

First let it be stated that the heading under which this appreciation is written must not be taken to imply that recognition of the distinguished services of the subject is in any sense limited to his (Masonic) Fraternity. A reliable poll of responsible opinion both in and out of the Order will show by the unanimous judgment that the Prince Hall Mason of the Year (1962) is Judge Thurgood Marshall 33^" . For a half century prior to the school desegregation case it had been generally assumed that the Plessy v Ferguson doctrine of "Separate but Equal" permanently fixed the constitutional status of African-American citizens. This concept of second class citizenship for Blacks under the Constitution might have had a longer life if even that concept had been followed in good faith. But for flagrant deviation this half-a-loaf formula might have gone a longer time without challenge. Came a Supreme Court and Bro. Thurgood Marshall to whom the great pronouncements on human citizenship right were more than a mass of pious platitudes. The rest is history. Judge Marshall's devotion to the cause of African-American rights has been for him a veritable passion. His appointment to the high place which he was to hold lay on the table of the United States Senate eleven months awaiting confirmation. Outlasting his foes was no new experience for him. That is what he has been doing in 1933 when the Law School of Howard University commissioned him and sent him forth as a minister of justice. A truly great advocate and supremely modest after the manner of all great and devoted men, he exemplified in life the old saying that there is scarcely any limit to the good which a talented man can do if he does not spend too much time trying to get the credit for it. (Taken from the Winter Bulletin, February-March 1963 issue of the official organ of the United Supreme Council, A.A.S.R, Northern Jurisdiction). As reported in the August issue of Phylaxis Notes there remains some in American Freemasonry who are insensitive to African-Americans, who prefer to push a second class citizenship on Prince Hall Freemasons. The Masonic Service Association removal of the name of Bro. Thurgood Marshall from a list of Freemasons who served in the Supreme Court remains an insult to the 300,000 Prince Hall Freemasons who respect the Associate Justice and Past Minister of State of the United Supreme Council 33^" A.A.S.R., Southern Jurisdiction, PHA, USA., and each chance we get we will remind the MSA of this unforgivable abuse. The Phylaxis Society has asked its Baltimore Doric Chapter to contact the author of the article "Supreme Court Justices Who Were Freemasons", Paul Bessel and register our feelings on the matter.

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