NOTABLE PRINCE HALL MASONS
Bro. Robert Abbot – Founder of the Chicago Defender Bro. Richard Allen – Founder/first Bishop of the A.M.E. Church Bro. Alexander T. Augusta – First African-American to head a hospital
in the U.S. Bro. Marion Barry – Former Mayor of Washington, D.C. Bro. William “Count” Basie – Orchestra leader/composer Bro. James J.G. Bias – Founder of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee Bro. Henry Blair – First Black
to receive a U.S. patent Bro. James Herbert “Eubie” Blake – Composer/Pianist Bro. Edward Bouchet – First Black to be elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society Bro. William Wells Brown – First Black to publish a novel Bro. Nathaniel
“Nat King” Cole – Singer Bro. Ossie Davis – Actor/Director/Playwrite Bro. Martin R. Delany – First Black to matriculate from Harvard Medical School/First Black Major in the U.S. Army Bro. W.E.B. DuBois – Educator/author/historian Bro. Alexander Dumas – Author Bro. Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington – Orchestra leader/composer Bro. Medgar Wiley Evers – Civil Rights leader Bro. James Forten – Abolitionist/manufacturer Bro. Timothy Thomas Fortune – JournalistBro. Larry Gibson – Author, Civil Rights Advocate, Attorney Bro. Alex Haley – Author Bro. William C. Handy – Composer Bro. Matthew Henson – Explorer Bro. Benjamin L. Hooks – Former Executive Director of the N.A.A.C.P. Bro. Jesse Jackson – Founder of the Rainbow Coalition and Operation
Push Bro. Maynard Jackson – First black Mayor of Atlanta Bro. John H. Johnson – Publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines Bro. Jack Johnson – First Black heavyweight boxing champion in U.S. Bro. Absalom Jones – First Black Priest
in the Episcopal Church in U.S. Bro. Dr. Ernest Everett Just – One of the founders of Omega Psi Phi and renowned zoologist Bro. Don King – Boxing promoter Bro. Lewis Howard Latimer – Inventor of the carbon filament for light Bro. Thurgood Marshall – Former Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court Bro. Amos T. Hall Former Judge  and Lawyer for the NACCP Bro. Benjamin E. Mays – Former President of Morehouse College Bro. Leon M’Ba – First President
of the Republic of Gabon Bro. Kweisi Mfume – Former Executive Director of the N.A.A.C.P., United States Congressman Bro. Richard Pryor – Comedian/Actor Bro. Alexander Pushkin – Poet/Novelist/Play write Bro. A. Philip Randolph – Founder and First
President of the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Bro. Charles Rangel – U.S. Congressman Bro. Joseph Jenkins Robert s -First President of the Republic of Liberia Bro. “Sugar” Ray Robinson – Former mid/light
heavyweight boxing champion Bro. Arthur A. Schomburg – Historian/Author Rev. Bro. Al Sharpton – Civil Rights Advocate Bro. Carl B. Stokes – First Black Mayor of Cleveland, OH Bro. Louis Stokes – Former U.S. Congressman Bro. David Walker – Author of “David Walker’s Appeal Bro. Booker T. Washington – Educator and Fonder of the Tuskegee University/Institute Bro. Daniel Hale Williams – First surgeon to perform open heart surgery Bro. Bert Williams
– Actor/Comedian Bro. Granville T. Woods – Inventor Bro. Andrew Young – Former Mayor of Atlanta and U.N. Ambassador Bro. Lawrence Douglass Wilder – The First Black elected Governor in this country from Virginia. Bro. Dr.
Charles H. Wesley – Prince Hall Historian/Author /Ordained A.M.E Minister/ Educator Bro. Joseph A. Walkes, Jr – Historian/Author of Black Square &
Compass / Prince Hall Masonic Quiz Book/ History Of The Shrine/History
Of The United
Supreme Council A.A.S.R.