Prince Hall Freemasonry

The Hidden Hand

Reconstruction: The Death of the Confederacy & Birth of Jim Crow

R:.W:. L. Ken Collins, IIGrand Lodge Historian

M:.W:. Prince Hall Grand Lodge of AlabamaMWB Neil Neddermeyerwww.cinosam.net

Branding of HistoryDixie

I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray! In Dixie Land I'll take my standto live and die in Dixie. Away, away, away down south in Dixie. Away, away, away down south in Dixie

Daniel Decatur Emmett

“…if I had known to what use they were going to put my song, I will be damned if I’d have written it.”

The Great Migration

Union Soldiers

Carpetbaggers & Scalawags

Religion

Education

Prince Hall Freemasonry

The New Republic: The Founding Father’s were not always white…

Congress

State Leadership

Military

CongressHiram Rhodes Revels (R-MS)

Born NCCivil War Veteran1st Black US Senator (Seat of Jefferson Davis)Civil Rights ActivistModerate Approach towards Ex-Confederates

State Office• P.B.S. Pinchback (R-LA)

– Governor– Congressman (Disputed)– State Senator– Soldier

EducatorsWilliam Hooper Councill•Born a slave•Clergyman•Founder of Alabama A&M•First Clerk post-Reconstruction

MilitaryCol. James Lewis•Started as a Steward on the Confederate ship the DeSoto•Commissioned as a Captain Freedman’s Bureau -Agent•Customs Inspector

Pity the poor writer and Masonic historian who becomes bitten by the urge to take pen in hand and to write the Masonic histories of the past. - Bro. Joseph Walkes, Jr.