Bob Brown

Bob Brown is a former member of the Congress of Racial Equality in Chicago. He is a former director of the Midwest Office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He worked with Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael). He founded the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. He supported the Movement of Take Kwame Nkrumah Back to Ghana, the Democratic Party of Guinea under the leadership of Ahmed Sekou Toure, and the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania. He helped build the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC).

Since 1963, Brown has supported hundreds of student and youth, civil and human rights, national liberation and Black Power, Pan-Africanist and socialist movements and organizations worldwide. He served as national coordinator for Third World outreach for the 1-million-person June 12th Disarmament Demonstration at the United Nations (1983). He was the national director for logistics and operations for the 1.2 Million Man March and the national coordinator for the 1.3-million-person Stay-at-Home Campaign (1995). He advised the National Black United Front on its’ petition to the United Nations that charged the United States with genocide for selling crack cocaine to finance the Iran-Contra War (1996). He advised the National Action Network on its “Campaign to Cash the Check” and build a demonstration at the Democratic National Convention (1996). He attended the NGO Forum at the UN World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban (2001). He filed three lawsuits in Chicago and lobbied worldwide for the enforcement of the Slavery Era Records Disclosure Ordinances (2004, 2006 and 2009). He lobbied in Geneva and Copenhagen against Chicago’s bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games.

Brown traveled to, and supported hundreds of organizations in 40 states in the United States and 30 countries. He helped produce and distribute millions of pieces of movement literature. He helped reprint Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism and co-authored a chapter in We have not been moved: resisting racism and militarism in 21st century America. He is struggling to complete two books: God Makes No Slaves In The Womb! and The War against Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)!