Black Freemasonry: From Prince Hall to the Giants of Jazz

The history of black Freemasonry from Boston and Philadelphia in the late 1700s through the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement

* Examines the letters of Prince Hall, legendary founder of the first black lodge

* Reveals how many of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century were also Masons, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Nat King Cole

* Explores the origins of the Civil Rights Movement within black Freemasonry and the roles played by Booker T. Washington and W...