Materials published in The Freemasons' Monthly Magazine, the Freemason's Repository, The Masonic Review, the Voice of Masonry, The Builder, The New Age and other publications. These sources discuss the controversy pertaining to the question as to whether Prince Hall Grand Lodges should be recognized as legitimate masonic organizations.

Excerpts excised from the grand lodge proceedings and masonic codes of Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Ohio, Oregon and Washington related to the recognition of Prince Hall Grand Lodges and the legitimacy of African-American Freemasonry.

Articles examining the definition of the doctrine as it applies to the territorial boundaries of each grand lodge and the related issue of the legitimacy of two grand lodges in the same masonic jurisdictional unit (be it a state in the United States or a foreign country.

Includes a dispute between the Oregon and the Idaho grand lodges over Idaho's recognition of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Oregon.

Articles concerning the historical role which Prince Hall played in the founding of the first African-American Lodge in 1784-1787 and the history of African-American freemasonry.

Articles pertaining to Prince Hall's masonic activities, the origins of the Prince Hall Lodge and various facets of African-American freemasonry.

Contains reviews of The Prince Hall Counsellor, Black Freemasonry and Middle Class Realities and A Documentary of Prince Hall and Other Fraternal Orders.

Vol. XIX-XXII--publication of the Phylaxis Society of Prince Hall Freemasons.

Vol. XXIII-XXVI--publication of the Phylaxis Society of Prince Hall Freemasons.