Social Science History
Special Issue: African American Fraternal Associations
and the History of Civil Society in the United States
28:3 (Fall 2004)

Theda Skocpol and Jennifer Lynn Oser, “Organization Despite Adversity: The Origins and Development of African American Fraternal Associations.” Social Science History 28:3 (Fall 2004): 367-437.
Ribbon Badge from African American Household of Ruth	Ribbon Badge from Lodge of African American Odd Fellows	Ribbon Badge for Officer of African American Knights of Tabor	Member of the United Brothers of Friendship
Origins of the African American Odd Fellows	Headquarters and Rural Lodge, African American Odd Fellows	Prince Hall Masons in Mississippi
Bayliss J. Camp and Orit Kent, “‘What a Mighty Power We Can Be’: Individual and Collective Identity in African American and White Fraternal Initiation Rituals.” Social Science History 28:3 (Fall 2004): 439-83.
	Text of Ritual of the Daughters of the Tabernacle/Tabor	Moses Dickson, Founder, Knights of Tabor
Ariane Liazos and Marshall Ganz, “Duty to the Race: African American Fraternal Orders and the Legal Defense of the Right to Organize.” Social Science History 28:3 (Fall 2004): 485-534.
	Title Page of Black Justice Exposed (1947)	Civil Liberties Float