Black Fact = 1943-
Hubert G. (H. Rap) Brown, writer, activist, and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Chairman, was born in Baton Rouge, LA, on this date in 1943. Brown has changed his name to Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
H. Rap Brown succeeded Stokely Carmichael as chairman of theStudent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was a prominent figure in the Black Panther Party. A leading proponent of Black Power and a polarizing media icon, Brown symbolized both the power and the dangers—for white Americans and for radical activists themselves—of the civil rights movement’s new militancy in the late 1960’s.
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