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Profile Information
Name:Hubert Rap Brown Hometown:Baton Rouge, Louisiana Date of Birth:October 4, 1943 Job Name/Title/Employer:Chairman of SNCC, Chairman of NAG,Honorary officer of the Black Panther Party Education:Attended Southern High School and Southern University

Friends
Friend #1:Stokely Carmichael

[[image:http://www.blackpast.org/files/blackpast_images/carmichael_stokely.jpg width="197" height="264" caption="He was another honorary officer with me in the Black Panther Party."]]
Friend #2:Huey P. Newton

//Friend #3:William Kunstler// Friend #4:Bobby Seale

Friend #5:Ed Brown

About Me
Hi, I am Hubert Rap Brown born to Eddie Brown and Thelma Brown on October 4, 1943. I have one brother and one sister, they are Ed Brown and Patricia Brown. My family was very poor, so my parents sent me to the Blundon Orphanage Home. I attended McKinley High School until I was transferred, by my mom to Southern High School. After high school I became a student at Southern University for college. Although I was interested in the civil rights movement while I was in high school and college, I also became interested because my mom and brother were involved with the movement. I finally started participating in the civil rights movement.

In 1964, I went to Holmes County with other members of the SNCC to help out the three men killed by the Klu Klux Klan. Later that year I joined other students at Howard University as part of NAG, which I later was elected chairman of. In 1967 I was elected chairman of SNCC. On July 24, 1967 I spoke at a rally to "fight fire with fire". After the speech while I walking I was shot in the head. After I was shot I left the city that I was rallying in, but the cops were following me because I encouraged other people to commit arson. But I soon continued to fight for civil rights.

In February of 1968 in California, I spoke at a Black Panther Party and there I became an honorary officer. In 1971, I was sent to jail for 24 counts of robbery, attempted murder and possession of weapons. While in jail I converted to Islam and changed my name to Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. Throughout the years I have been convicted of many other crimes. After I became a Muslim, I changed my mind about being violent in the fight for civil rights to peaceful protesting. On January 28, 2000 while I was working at my grocery store two police officers came into the grocery store to arrest me for missing my court date. I shot and killed one officer and wounded the other. I am now serving a life sentence for murdering a cop. I was arrested and charged many times in my life because of my interest in the civil rights movement.

Wall Posts

 * In 1960 I became involved in the civil rights movement by my class and I marching on the campus of Southern University to let blacks go to school there. My class and I got suspended from high school for two days.
 * In 1966 I was appointed as Director of the Greene County project in Alabama for SNCC. I was responsible for organizing projects in Alabama.


 * On May 6th, 1970 I was placed on the FBI'S Most Wanted list. I was placed on the list due to the police thinking I killed two police officers with a bomb.


 * In 1983, I formed the Imam Al-Amin National Community. It is a group of 30 mosques to bring Islam to others.

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