What is the difference betwee Prince Hall Masonry and Ancient Free and Accepted?

Answer 1

Widespread segregation in the United States during a large part of the 19th and 20th centuries made it difficult--if not practically impossible--for African Americans to join Masonic lodges outside of the Prince Hall jurisdiction.

On the eve of the American Revolution in 1775, Prince Hall and 14 other freemen were initiated into an Irish Constitutional Military Lodge in Boston, Massachusetts. When the other members of this Lodge, who were apparently British soldiers, left America, Prince Hall and his fellow lodge members obtained permission to meet as a lodge.

When the United Grand Lodge of England was formed in 1813 (in the middle of the War of 1812), the UGLE cut from its rolls all US-based lodges. Accordingly, Prince Hall Masons were on their own. Of course, since the 1960s, all US Masonic lodges have integrated their membership in policy if not in practice (in some parts of the American South).

Answer 2

Prince Hall masonry is (was) for ******.