In July 1890, the Northern Lights Lodge, No. l of the Colored Knights of Pythias is chartered in Seattle.
Colored Knights of Pythias lodge is chartered in Seattle in July 1890.
- By Helen Lacy
- Posted 11/07/1998
- HistoryLink.org Essay 269
Sources:
Quintard Taylor, The Forging of A Black Community: Seattle's Central District From 1870 through the Civil Rights Era (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994), 40, 139, 243.
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