Famous Prince Hall freemasons Athletics

Ralph H. Metcalfe, Olympic champion

Scottie Pippen, No. 33, Chicago Bulls/Forward

Sugar Ray Robinson, mid/light heavy boxing champion Civics

Julian Bond, St. James Lodge No. 4, Atlanta. NAACP National Chairman

Thomas Bradley, mayor of Los Angeles, California

Emanuel Cleaver of Eureka Lodge No. 170. mayor of Kansas City, Missouri

Dwight Evans, Star in the East Lodge No. 55. PA State Representative

Medger Wiley Evers, NAACP field secretary

Chaka Fattah, Light of Elmwood Lodge No. 45. Congressman

Wilson Goode, Sons of Light No. 120. First Black mayor of Philadelphia

Augustus F. Hawkins. US Congressman California

Benjamin L. Hooks, Former Executive Director NAACP

Vincent J. Hughes, Mt. Lebanon Lodge No. 9. State Rep. 1987 - 1994; Senator 1994- present

Rev. Jesse Jackson, Harmony Lodge No. 88, Chicago, Illinois

Kweisi Mfume, Mount Olive Lodge No. 25, Baltimore, Maryland. President and CEO, NAACP

Charles B. Rangel, Joppa Lodge No. 55, US Congressman New York

Rev. Al Sharpton, Jurisdiction of New York, civil rights leader

Carl B. Stokes, first Black elected mayor, Cleveland, OH

Louis Stokes, US Congressman Ohio

John Street, Philadelphia Lodge No. 74. mayor of Philadelphia

Michael C. Watson President & CEO, Absalom Jones Foundation

Lawrence Douglass Wilder, East End Lodge No. 233, Virginia. First US Black Governor, Mayor Of Richmond, Va.

Andrew Young, St. James Lodge No. 4, Atlanta, Georgia. UN Ambassador, mayor of Atlanta Commerce

James Forten, abolitionist/manufacturer

Richard D. Gidron, president, Dick Gidron Cadillac Education

W.E.B. DuBois, educator/author/historian

Benjamin Mays, educator/former president Atlanta University

Booker T. Washington, educator/founder Tuskegee Institute

Charles H. Wesley Entertainment

Egbert Austin "Bert" Williams, actor/ comedian Exploration

Matthew Henson, explorer Freemasonry

Samuel T. Daniels, Grand Master of Maryland for three decades

A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. 33°, Campbell-Wash-Joppa Lodge No 37, Philadelphia

Harry A. Williamson, author/masonic historian Journalism

Timothy Thomas Fortune, journalist

John H. Johnson, publisher EBONY and Jet magazines

Robert Sengstacke Abbott, founder/publisher CHICAGO DEFENDER Labour

A. Phillip Randolph, founder/ first president, International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Law

Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court Military

Daniel "Chappie" James, general US Air Force Music

William "Count" Basie, orchestra leader/composer

James Herbert "Eubie" Blake, composer/pianist

Nathaniel "Nat King" Cole, American pianist and singer

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, orchestra leader/composer

Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader/composer

William C. Handy, composer Religion

Richard Allen, founder/first bishop AME Church Text of page mirrored from <geocities.com/timessquare/1914/famous.html>, written by Bro. Timothy A. Johnson of Doric Lodge No. 28 MWPHGL of North Carolina and Jurisdiction, with additions. Accessed 2002/10/22, offline since 28 October 2009.