It meant rewarding merit over bloodline and it meant fighting for liberty and freedom. ... In Hall's speech " A Charge Delivered to The Brethren," he addresses his masons as grand master and explains to his brothers that black people fought shoulder to shoulder for freedom and equality in the American Revolution, so for equality not to be given to black men was total hypocrisy. ... By doing so they orchestrated the "Freedom Now Rally" of 1964. ...

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