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Out of the Shadows:
The Emergence of Prince Hall
Freemasonry in America,
200 Years of Endurance
by Alton G. Roundtree and Paul M. Bessel
Foreword by S. Brent Morris
Published and available for sale by KLR Publishing, Forestville MD
ISBN 0-9772385-0-4
Hardcover, with dust jacket
486 pages, including appendices
$29.95 plus shipping and handling
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In the words of Michael Poll, a well-known moderator of masonic email groups and
past master of his lodge in New Orleans:
“I received a copy of Out of the Shadows yesterday afternoon and spent
most of the evening looking it over. What a great book! As you would expect, a
history of Prince Hall Masonry is given, but this book is so filed with
information and details that it can be viewed as of encyclopedia value. Not only
is the story told, but chart after chart and document after document is offered
to clearly present Prince Hall Masonry and the events leading up to and beyond
recognition. This is clearly a "must have" book for both the serious researcher
or those with just an interested in the events. Bravo, Bros. Roundtree and
Bessel”
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In the words of S. Brent Morris, a well-known masonic
scholar:
"*Out of the Shadows* provides detailed references, so that when a question
arises of when or where something was said about Prince Hall regularity,
scholars will refer to 'Roundtree and Bessel.'"
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From the publisher:
Out of the Shadows: The Emergence of Prince Hall Freemasonry in America
is the most comprehensive book about Prince Hall freemasonry and its relations
with other branches of masonry, as well as the society around it from the 1700's
through the present time. It tells the story of how Prince Hall masonry began
and developed, but it has so much more in addition.
• There are newly-discovered details about PHO, the national organization of
Prince Hall masonry that developed in the 1800s but that has since come to be
viewed by “mainstream” Prince Hall masons as “bogus.” Is it? This book presents
the whole story objectively.
• Some masons today may be surprised at some of the ways in which “mainstream”
masonry viewed African Americans in the past. This book presents the facts, with
citations, to put this subject in its proper perspective.
• The subject of masonic recognition by grand lodges can be very confusing, yet
this book explains it step by step, including details about the movement that
grew among grand lodges in the 1990s to have mutual recognition with Prince Hall
Grand Lodge
And many more subjects about Prince Hall masonry, including just about
everything anyone could want to know about it and its relations with other
“mainstream” grand lodges and others. The book includes many tables and other
appendices that support and supplement the contents of the book.
Out of the Shadows: The Emergence of Prince Hall Freemasonry in America
is the book that should be on the shelf of every masonic library and individual
mason as the most encyclopedic reference source available anywhere about Prince
Hall masonry, “mainstream” masonry’s recognition policies towards it, and past
and current views and actions about mutual recognition and race in general.
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