H. Rap Brown

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H. Rap Brown, later known as Jamil Al-Amin, is a prominent 1960s Black Power activist and former chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) known for his fiery oratory and militant stance on racial justice.


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instanceOf Black Power activist
Muslim convert
author
civil rights activist
human
orator
political leader
activeIn 1960s
alsoKnownAs Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin
Jamil Al-Amin
associatedWith Black Panther Party
SNCC
birthName Hubert Gerold Brown
convertedName Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin
convertedTo Islam
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1943-10-04
ethnicGroup African American
familyName Brown
gender male
genre political writing
givenName Hubert
hasInfluenced later Black nationalist movements
radical strands of African-American political thought
hasPoliticalView Black nationalism
revolutionary politics
hasRole spokesperson for Black Power
knownFor fiery oratory
militant stance on racial justice
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
movement Black Power movement
Civil rights movement
notableEvent indictment under the 1968 federal Anti-Riot Act
notableFor chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
leadership in the Black Power movement
notableWork Die Nigger Die!
occupation activist
politician
writer
placeOfBirth Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
positionHeld chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
religion Islam
residence Atlanta, Georgia, United States
spouse Karima Al-Amin
subjectOf FBI surveillance during COINTELPRO

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Black Power movement
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