A Tribute to Archon Joseph B. Harris (1920-2011)

With sadness, Detroit's Iota Boulé reports that the circle has been broken. The death of Archon Joseph B. Harris, on Saturday, June 25, 2011, after 91 exceptionally productive years, brings to a close a life that was full and positive in all respects.

The Boulé Journal Celebrates Its 100th Anniversary

In the first issue of the Boule Journal it is the desire of the Grand Boule to extend to all members of this fraternity the heartiest felicitations upon the character and promise of this body. Unique in its origin, slow but sure in its growth, unrivalled in the high material, intellectual and spiritual character of its membership, its influence in the world of Negro-manhood is assured.

At the dawn of the twentieth century black men of distinction had long functioned in various leadership posts, especially in the churches and benevolent association movement. Some, notably Frederick Douglass among them, had even served in high government posts. But by and large they lived lives separate from those of the black masses and the white professionals. In 1904 a small group in Philadelphia set out to create an organization that would provide a vehicle for men of standing and like tastes to come together to know the best of one another.

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