Jerry (IceMan) Butler was the Grand Lecturer for Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge, state of Illinois.
Prince Hall went through an initiation ceremony, very similar to the initiations all Masons in the United States undergo today.
Prince Hall was never president of the United States. But in the late 1700s, he was an abolitionist, an educator, and the founder of the "Prince Hall Masons," a Masonic lodge for black men who wished to join what was at that time still a segregated organization.
I don't know about South Carolina but I am aware of caucasian Prince Hall Masons. Since all Prince Hall constitutions come from the same source, it would appear that there is no rule against it.
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All black masons in the United States of America are Price Hall masons. I don't think anyone in wikianswers will give you an answer to that question. Maybe you should find a Prince Hall lodge in LA and write them.
Al Sharpton is a Freemason (as is Jesse Jackson); and yes, several sources do list Rev. Sharpton as a Prince Hall Mason (a historically-black order of masons).
According to historians, Prince Hall founded the first African-American dominated black masons in the late 18th Century. This mason group included free and former enslaved black men.
Jerry Hall was born on July 2, 1956.
Jerry Hall was born on July 2, 1956.
To be sure, check with the Grand Lodges in your local jurisdictions (Both AF&AM and PHA). I believe that most, if not all AF&AM and Prince Hall Grand lodges the other to be regular.
If by "Black Freemasons" one is referring to Masons of African heritage, such men are found both in Lodges chartered by the Grand Lodge of Colorado (http://www.coloradofreemasons.org/) and the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah (http://mwphglco.com/).
The address of the Masons Hall 1785 A Charitable Foundation is: 4115 Nine Mile Road, Richmond, VA 23223-4916