The Hidden Role of Fraternal Organizations in the Education of Black Adults: Prince Hall Freemasonry as a Case Study

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Among middle class blacks, people whose aspirations for suc cess and status have been strong but whose economic and occu pational base for achievement has been weak, the desire for edu cation, broadly conceived, including manners and social graces, intellectual and practical business skills, citizenship training, and moral instruction has been overpowering. One of the places they have received the education they have desired has been from a multi-faceted institution not normally associated with learning; one that performs educational tasks outside a formal institutional framework: Prince Hall Freemasonry, the black branch of the international Freemasonic Order. The fraternity's continuous role as "educator" for the last 200 years is discussed.

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