History of the Knights of Pythias
Title | History of the Knights of Pythias PDF eBook |
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Pages | 828 |
Release | 1887 |
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History of the Knights of Pythias
Title | History of the Knights of Pythias PDF eBook |
Author | Dame Joseph Weeks |
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Pages | 314 |
Release | 1871 |
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A History of the Order of Knights of Pythias in Indiana with the Story of Damon and Pythias
Title | A History of the Order of Knights of Pythias in Indiana with the Story of Damon and Pythias PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Bowers |
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Pages | 318 |
Release | 1883 |
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The Alabama Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia
Title | The Alabama Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia PDF eBook |
Author | Marilyn T. Peebles |
Publisher | University Press of America |
Pages | 71 |
Release | 2012-08-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0761858156 |
The Knights of Pythias fraternal organization was founded in 1865 by an Act of Congress. When African American men were denied membership, they created their own organization in Vicksburg, MS, in 1880. Its founder, Thomas Stringer, believed that fraternal organizations could provide the black community with business networks, economic safety nets, and political experience at a time when Jim Crow laws were being constructed all around them. In Birmingham, Alabama, these Pythians became the cornerstone of an African American business community that included the first black-owned and operated bank in the state. They provided burial, life, and disability insurance for members and became a source of civic pride and racial solidarity. When their right to exist was challenged, they took the case to the Supreme Court in 1912 and won. This strategy would be used decades later in Brown v. Board of Education.
Pythian Knighthood, it History and Literature
Title | Pythian Knighthood, it History and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | James Richards Carnahan |
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Pages | 620 |
Release | 1888 |
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History of the Knights of Pythias
Title | History of the Knights of Pythias PDF eBook |
Author | Knights of Pythias. Ohio. Grand Lodge |
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Pages | 488 |
Release | 1901 |
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History of the Order of Knights of Pythias for the Jurisdiction of Cleveland, Ohio
Title | History of the Order of Knights of Pythias for the Jurisdiction of Cleveland, Ohio PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Dowd |
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Pages | 396 |
Release | 1892 |
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