Famous Prince Hall Freemasons: Bro. Garrett A. Morgan, Sr. inventor traffic light and gas mask Bro. Robert Abbot - Founder of the Chicago Defender Bro. Richard Allen - Founder/first Bishop of the A.M.E. Church Bro. Alexander T. Augusta - First African-American to head a hospital in the U.S. Bro. James J.G. Bias - Founder of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee Bro. Henry Blair - First Black to receive a U.S. patent Bro. James Herbert Eubie Blake - Composer/Pianist Bro. Edward Bouchet - First Black to be elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society Bro. William Wells Brown - First Black to publish a novel Bro. Ossie Davis - Actor/Director/Playwright Bro. Martin R. Delany - First Black to matriculate from Harvard Medical School/First Black Major in the U.S. Army Bro. Alexander Dumas - Author Bro. Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington - Orchestra leader/composer Bro. James Forten - Abolitionist/manufacturer Bro. Timothy Thomas Fortune - Journalist Bro. Alex Haley - Author Bro. William C. Handy - Composer Bro. Matthew Henson - Explorer Bro. Benjamin L. Hooks - Former Executive Director of the N.A.A.C.P. Bro. Maynard Jackson - First black mayor of Atlanta Bro. John H. Johnson - Publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines Bro. Jack Johnson - First Black heavyweight boxing champion in U.S. Bro. Absalom Jones - First Black Priest in the Episcopal Church in U.S. Bro. Dr. Ernest Everett Just - One of the founders of Omega Psi Phi and renowned zoologist Bro. Lewis Howard Latimer - Inventor of the carbon filament for light Bro. Benjamin E. Mays - Former President of Morehouse College Bro. Leon MBa - First President of the Republic of Gabon Bro. Kweisi Mfume - Executive Director of the N.A.A.C.P. Bro. Richard Pryor - Comedian/Actor Bro. Alexander Pushkin - Poet/Novelist/Playwright Bro. A. Philip Randolph - Founder and First President of the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Bro. Joseph Jenkins Robert s -First President of the Republic of Liberia Bro. Arthur A. Schomburg - Historian/Author Bro. Carl B. Stokes - First Black Mayor of Cleveland, OH Bro. Louis Stokes - Former U.S. Congressman Bro. David Walker - Author of David Walkers Appeal Bro. Booker T. Washington - Educator and Founder of the Tuskegee University/Institute Bro. Daniel Hale Williams - First surgeon to perform open heart surgery Bro. Bert Williams - Actor/Comedian Bro. Granville T. Woods - Inventor Bro. Andrew Young - Former Mayor of Atlanta and U.N. Ambassador Bro. Lawrence Douglass Wilder - The First Black elected Governor in this country from Virginia.
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