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About Us.
Magnus Court #100 is an auxiliary of female family members of Prince Hall Shriners. We are a charitable and benevolent organization, who stresses the development of powerful leaders, encourages health awareness among youth and adults, provides services to help disabled and senior citizens, provides for effective networking among its members and other organizations, recognizes and celebrates the historic and current achievement of African American women, exerts positive influence and utilizes the tool of role modeling for youth, teenage mothers, high school and college students, and disseminates information for educational opportunities and career planning to youth and young adults.
Specific program thrusts include health, mentoring our youth and senior citizens, book bags and school supplies for adopted schools, and the Youth. In addition to volunteer activities, financial donations are made annually to College Fund/UNCF, scholarships, Health and Medical Research, American Cancer Society, Mental Retardation, NAACP, National Foundation (Birth Defects), HIV/AIDS Awareness and other civic and special interests.
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Our History.
Magnus Court No. 100 is a constituent court of the Imperial Court. The Imperial Court composed of female family members, is an auxiliary to the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of North and South America and its Jurisdictions, Inc. Prince Hall Affiliated (A.E.A.O.N.M.S.), and was formally organized on August 24, 1910, in Detroit, Michigan. There were three groups of women in several cities where the Shrine Temples were located (Maryland, Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C.), that had formed auxiliaries for the female relatives of the male members, but nothing had been done to formally organize them until the meeting in Detroit.
The purpose of the Imperial Court, Daughters, is basic. The uniting of the relatives of all members of A.E.A.O.N.M.S. into one common bond of friendship, to practice charity and benevolence, and to inculcate honor and integrity as symbolized in the legend of the Egyptian Queen, the Goddess of Isis.
The Daughters, like its male counterpart, accepts members without regard to race, creed, color, or natural origin. Approximately, five to ten percent of its present membership are non-black. There are courts throughout the United States, in the Bahamas, Canada, Europe, and the Far East.
Magnus Court No. 100, Daughters of the Imperial Court, is truly a "brainchild" of the late Noble John E. Strange (Past Illustrious Potentate of Magnus Temple No. 3 and Past Imperial Organizer). He conceived and made know the idea of an auxiliary Court to Magnus Temple No. 3; two Nobles played a major role in assisting with this dream, the late Reverend James Howard, and the late Noble Nelson Welford.
Magnus Court No. 100 was organized on March 22, 1947, and chartered August 22, 1947, with 20 ladies from the Norther Virginia area.
The Charter Members were (* denotes deceased):
Bessie Barbour *
Celeste Davis *
Elizabeth Hughes *
Eva W. Ladrey *
Lula McCullough *
Lillian Strange *
Martha Vinson *
Lera Bates *
Barbara Doles Hall
Nellie Jackson *
Jessie Mackey *
LaFlora Overstreet *
Pearl Strange *
Edna Walton *
Jennie Burrell *
Pearl Gibson *
Henrietta Jones *
Midred Lee *
Elizabeth Randolph *
Fannie Tucker *
Magnus Court No. 100 has been led by 59 Illustrious Commandresses. Dt. Lula L. Lang-Jeter, H.P.I.C. served as an elected officer of the Imperial Court as Imperial Internal Auditor and Imperial Recordress. We currently have seven Honorary Past Imperial Commandress, four Honorary Past Commandresses, and one Daughter of Distinction recipient.
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