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Prince Hall (c. 1735/8 – December 7, 1807) was an American abolitionist and leader in the free black community in Boston. He founded Prince Hall Freemasonry and lobbied for education rights for African American children.
John Telemachus Hilton (April 1801 – March 5, 1864) was an African-American abolitionist, author, and businessman, who established barber, furniture dealer, and employment agency businesses. [1] He was a Prince Hall Mason and established the Prince Hall National Grand Lodge of North America and served as its first National Grand Master for ...
Several members of the Prince Hall Lodge [nb 1] met in 1826 and established the Massachusetts General Colored Association "to promote the welfare of the race by working for the destruction of slavery." [1] [2] The elected officers were Thomas Dalton (abolitionist), President; William Guion Nell, Vice President; James George Barbadoes, Secretary ...
The Prince Hall Monument is a granite monument in the Cambridge Common park in Cambridge, Massachusetts, completed in 2010. It memorializes Prince Hall , an abolitionist , civil rights activist, and leader in Boston 's black community in the 1700s.
Boston's African American community worked for educational opportunities as early as 1787, when Prince Hall petitioned for equal access to public schools to the legislature of Massachusetts. His and other attempts to gain access to schools were also denied. The Beacon Hill home of Hall's son, Primus Hall, was used as a school starting in 1798 ...
Primus Hall (February 29, 1756 – March 22, 1842) was born into slavery. He is believed to be the son of Prince Hall, an abolitionist, American Revolutionary War soldier and founder of the Prince Hall Freemasonry.
George Middleton (c. 1735 – April 6, 1815) was an African-American Revolutionary War veteran, a Prince Hall Freemason, and a community civil rights campaigner in Massachusetts. War service [ edit ]
Hall house school moved to African Meeting House 1826 Massachusetts General Colored Association, a black abolitionist group, founded in African Meeting House. It was one of Black Bostonians' organizations, like the African Society and Prince Hall Masons, that publicly opposed racial discrimination and slavery over the next decades.