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The M.W. Stringer Grand Lodge was named in honor of Grand Master Thomas W. Stringer, founder of Prince Hall Masonry in Mississippi, who served as Grand Master from 1867 to 1893. It was dedicated on May 30, 1955, with an address by civil rights activist and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. The lodge has since served as the headquarters of Prince Hall Masonry and the Mississippi branch of the NAACP. On June 15, 1963, an overflow crowd of mourners gathered there for the funeral of Medgar Evers.
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Jackson, Mississippi · United States
