Brown, H Rap; Negro Leader. black power movement

Description:

Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), (far left) walks with two other men in what appears to be a bus station. "Born Hubert Gerold Brown in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Al-Amin went by the name H. Rap Brown during the 1960s and served as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ... he later joined the Black Panther Party, which sought to empower African-Americans and confront and conquer social injustices, at one point he was minister of justice for the Panthers and exhorted African-Americans to arm themselves, "I say violence is necessary," he once famously said. "It is as American as cherry pie" ... Al-Amin later moved to Atlanta, opened a grocery in Atlanta's West End and was the spiritual leader of a mosque in the neighborhood, neighbors credited Al-Amin, whom friends described as a humble and respectful man, for working to clean up drugs and prostitution in the low-income West End ... an Atlanta jury found former Black Panther member Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin guilty of murder Saturday in a March 2000 shooting that killed one Fulton County sheriff's deputy and wounded another," from CNN Law Center, March 9, 2002 .

Notes:

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Data Provider:

Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library

Collection:

Virtual Motor City

Subject Topic:

African American civil rights workers and Black Panther Party

Subject Name:

Al-Amin, Jamil and 1943-

Format:

photographs

Rights:

Copyright Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University

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http://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc62723