Editing Loyal Order of Moose (section)

== Membership ==
Until at least the 1970s, membership was restricted to white men of "sound mind and body, in good standing in the community, engaged in lawful business who are able to speak and write the English language".<ref name="Preuss p.258" /> In June 1972 the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] handed down a decision partially in the Order's favor, saying that a Moose Lodge in [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]], need not have its state [[liquor license]] revoked because it refused to serve a Black guest, but that the state could subsequently condition its license on nondiscriminatory practices.<ref>Schmidt pp.221–222</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/407/163/case.html |title = Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis :: 407 U.S. 163 (1972) :: Justia U.S. Supreme Court Center}}</ref>

In the early 1920s, the LOOM reportedly had over half a million members, with 32,570 in the Mooseheart Legion and 5,178 in the Junior Order of Moose.<ref name="Preuss p.258" />

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Membership
|-
! Year !! Members
|-
| 1928 || 650,000
|-
| 1966 || 1,000,000<ref name="Whalen p.105" />
|-
| 1979 || 1,323,240<ref name="Schmidt p.221">Schmidt p.221</ref>
|-
| 2013 || 800,000<ref name="LOOM">{{Cite web|url=https://www.mooseintl.org/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819132218/http://www.mooseintl.org/public/Area/LOOM.asp|url-status=dead|title=Moose International|archivedate=August 19, 2013}}</ref>
|-
| 2021 || 650,000<ref name="mooseintl.org" />
|}