George G. M. James

James was born in Georgetown, James was born in Georgetown, Guyana, South America. His parents were Reverend Linch B. and Margaret E. James. George studied at Durham University in Britain and after a period at the University of London he gained his doctorate at Columbia University in New York. He then qualified to teach mathematics, Latin, and Greek. Later he was Professor of Logic and Greek at Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina for two years, before working at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

George G. M. James was one of the greatest teachers who ever lived. He was a true Master Mason, and he was among the first African Americans to dispel the lies about African civilizations. Through his excellent research Brother James (we shall refer to him as the Master Teacher) exposed the true origins of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Egypt as the mother lodge of the ancient world. He released this great study in 1954 which was a time when some people of African descent had no clue that the Masonic lodges of their various communities were schools of knowledge that descended from the knowledge of ancient Africa. Many African Americans had no clue that their order was so ancient. Many Freemasons accepted the origin of Freemasonry in Europe with the formation of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717.  Many people have tried to discredit the work of Master Teacher George G. M. James.

Source: African Origins of Freemasonry