Annual Spriggs Lecture: Dr. Peter Hinks on Black Freemasonry in MA
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Museum of African American History, Boston & Nantucket
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Join us Thursday, August 25th for the Annual Frank and Bette Spriggs Lecture on Nantucket. This year Dr. Peter P. Hinks will be speaking on Black Freemasonry. On March 6, 1775, an Irish soldier initiated a freedman named Prince Hall and a dozen or more black Bostonian men into a lodge of Freemasons. Nearly 10 years later, the Grand Lodge of England issued a charter on September 29, 1784 to African Lodge #459, making them the first people of African descent formally admitted into Freemasonry. Hear Dr. Hinks speak on the relationship between the Prince Hall Lodge and the Black community of Boston at the African Meeting House on Nantucket (29 York. Street, Five Corners, Nantucket) at 4:00pm