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February is Black History Month
Happy Black History Month to the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Free & Accepted Masons Grand Lodge of Arizona and all our brothers in its jurisdiction.
The roots of Black History Month began in 1915 when Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E Moorland founded the “Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) who would later sponsor a national Negro History Week in 1926, choosing the second week in February to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. In 1976, it was officially recognized by President Gerald Ford and has been recognized by every President since then to honor the accomplishments of Black Americans.
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Shaquille O’neal, Basketball player- Widow’s Son Lodge No. 28, PHA New York, NY
Sugar Ray Robinson, Boxer- Joppa Lodge No. 55, PHA New York, NY
Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice-Coal Creek Lodge No 88, PHA Tulsa, Oklahoma
Duke Ellington, Jazz Musician-Social Lodge No. 1, PHA Washington, D.C.
W.E.B. DuBois, Civil Rights Activist-Widow’s Son Lodge No. 1, PHA New Haven, CT
