The Men of Trinity Lodge No. 9, Prince Hall Free & Accepted Masons (1964)
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Chartered in 1872, the Trinity Lodge No. 9 of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Ohio, Free and Accepted Mason, has long been a pillar in Portsmouth’s African-American community. Before the construction of their current home, the men of Trinity Lodge met in the old Fourteenth Street Center.
Pictured, front row, left-to-right: Eugene Collins, Joe Austin, Sr., Bruce Gilmore, Bo Slaughter, and Jim Sandler; second row, left-to-right: Ray Arrington, Sr., Harold Byrd, Forrest Taylor, Junior Parker, Stanley Spencer, Leroy Barrett, Robert Coleman, Charles Clayton, Grady Battle, Crawford Parker, and Alto Byrd.
This file appears in: Fourteenth Street Community Center: "The Heart of the North End"
Fourteenth Street Community Center: "The Heart of the North End"
The black civic movement led to the formation of the Portsmouth Welfare League in May 1928, organized in the auditorium of the Washington School, with Dr. W. H. Lowry as President. The League organized committees that would go onto establish various…