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Rising Sun Lodge No. 46
P.H.A. - F. & A.M.
959 Baltimore & Annapolis Blvd.
Severna Park, MD 21146
(410) 544-8446

A Proud Masonic Heritage

 

Well known Prince Hall Masons


 

Thurgood Marshall,  Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court

Alex Haley,  Author

 Booker T. Washington,  Educator/Founder Tuskegee Institute

Charles B. Rangel,  U.S. Congressman New York

 Louis Stokes,  U.S. Congressman Ohio

William "Count" Basie,  Orchestra Leader/Composer

Nathaniel "Nat King" Cole,  American Pianist and Singer

W.E.B. DuBois,  Educator/Author/Historian

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington,  Orchestra Leader/Composer

Medger Wiley Evers,  Civil Rights Leader

James Herbert "Eubie" Blake,  Composer/Pianist

Andrew Young,  Former Mayor of Atlanta

Maynard Jackson,  Former Mayor of Atlanta

Thomas Bradley,  Mayor of Los Angeles, California

Sugar Ray Robinson,  Boxing Champion

John H. Johnson,  Publisher EBONY and Jet magazines

Carl B. Stokes,  First Black Elected Mayor, Cleveland, OH

Robert Sengstacke Abbott,  Founder/Publisher Chicago Defender

Richard Allen,  Founder/First Bishop AME Church

Matthew Henson,  Explorer

Daniel "Chappie" James,  General U.S. Air Force

James Forten,  Abolitionist/Manufacturer

Timothy Thomas Fortune,  Journalist

Richard D. Gidron,  President, Dick Gidron Cadillac

William C. Handy,  Composer

Augustus F. Hawkins,  U.S. Congressman California

Lionel Hampton,  Orchestra Leader/Composer

Benjamin L. Hooks,  Former Executive Director NAACP

Benjamin Mays,  Educator/Former President Atlanta University

Ralph H. Metcalfe,  Olympic Champion

A. Phillip Randolph,  Founder/ First President, International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Egbert Austin "Bert" Williams,  Actor/ Comedian

Harry A. Williamson,  Author/Masonic Historian

Scottie Pippen, #33,  Chicago Bulls / Forward

 

 

 

edited and updated
from various resources
including the
Boston Globe ©
June 1996 archive

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