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Rev. Moses Dickson, Founder of the International Order of Twelve, 1902. Moses Dickson (1824-1901) was an African-American abolitionist, soldier, minister, and founder of the Knights of Liberty, an anti-slavery organization that planned a slave uprising in the United States and helped enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad. He also founded the black fraternal organisation the International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor and was a co-founder of Lincoln University in Missouri.