The Helios Biblios Hour : Xenophobia PAN Africans

The essential fraternal character of the UNIA did not go unnoticed.
In 1922, in his perceptive analysis of Garvey and the UNIA, Hodge Kirnon
stated that "there is no indication that Garvey meant it [the UNIA] to
be anything more than a fraternal order." Harry Albro Williamson, the
leading bibliophile of black Masonry, later wrote an important article
on Prince Hall Masonry for the Negro World (3 June 1922). Amy
Jacques Garvey later recalled that Garvey became a Mason "through the
influence of John E. Bruce and Dr. [F. W.] Ellegor [but] he did not
attend Masonic meetings, he was always too busy, so the connection
dropped." Moreover, she disclosed that UNIA chapters operated quite
freely within the ranks of black fraternities. Garvey turned even more
emphatically toward the Masonic ideal based on secret knowledge. From the start, the UNIA shared numerous features with fraternal benevolent orders. The UNIA's governing Constitution and Book of Laws held the same status and function as Freemasonry's Book of Constitutions and Book of the Law.
The UNIA's titular "potentate" was clearly analogous to the "imperial
potentate" of the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order of the Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine, or black Shriners. The High Executive Council of the UNIA
and ACL reflected the Imperial Council of the black Shriners and the
Supreme Council of Freemasonry in general.xenophobia. : fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign. xenophobia, a fear of foreigners or strangers. Xenophobia has its roots in fear — literally. Phobia comes from the Greek word meaning "fear." ...