"In this book, Professor Marilyn Peebles provides an accurate and concise history of the African American Knight of Pythias in the United States generally and in Birmingham, Alabama, particularly. The writing is clear and interesting. She has contacted the proper sources and thereby her research is excellent. I highly recommend it to persons who want an increased knowledge of the importance of fraternal organizations in the segregated African America community." --Wilson Fallin, Jr., author of The African American Church in Birmingham and Uplifting the People:Three Centuries of Black Baptists in Alabama, professor of history, University of Montevallo "Marilyn T. Peebles has reawakened our memories of the Pythian purpose: The aim of the Pythian Order is to put into the home a good husband and father, into the community a good neighbor, and into the state a good citizen." --Willie A.

Casey, Deputy Supreme Chancellor for State of Alabama.