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Rising Sun Lodge No. 46 |
Well known Prince Hall Masons
Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
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
Daniel "Chappie" James, General U.S. Air Force
James Forten,
Abolitionist/Manufacturer
Timothy Thomas Fortune, Journalist
Richard D. Gidron, President, Dick Gidron Cadillac
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