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The Free African Society (FAS) developed as part of the rise in civic organizing following American independence in the 1776 to 1783 Revolutionary War; it was the first black mutual aid society in Philadelphia. The city was a growing center of free blacks, attracted to its jobs and other opportunities.
The Free African Union Society of Newport was established on November 10, 1780, by Newport Gardner, Zingo Stevens and Prince Amy. [7] The purpose was to assist the poor and sick, and to show mainstream white society that blacks could be responsible citizens. [8]
Cyrus Bustill (February 2, 1732 – 1806) was an African American brewer and baker, abolitionist and community leader. [1] A notable business owner in the African American community in Philadelphia, he also became a founding member of the Free African Society in the city.
Absalom Jones (November 7, 1746 – February 13, 1818) was an African-American abolitionist and clergyman who became prominent in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Disappointed at the racial discrimination he experienced in a local Methodist church, he founded the Free African Society with Richard Allen in 1787, a mutual aid society for African Americans in the city.
They formed the Free African Society (F.A.S.), a non-denominational mutual aid society that assisted fugitive enslaved people from the Southern United States and new migrants coming into the city of Philadelphia. Allen and Absalom Jones, William Gray, and William Wilcher found an available lot on Sixth Street near Lombard Street.
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In 1945 it was the reportedly the second-largest African-American Elks lodge in the country. In 1930, the Lodge erected a home at 1943 Christian Street, in the area now known as the Christian Street Historic District. [12] Christopher Perry Lodge, No. 965, of Philadelphia; Leonard C. Irvin Lodge, No. 994, of Philadelphia
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