Benjamin Brown Oral History Interview 1996 October 23

Abstract

Student movement in Atlanta; Atlanta University Center; Atlanta Committee on Appeal for Human Rights; Lonnie King; Rich’s boycott; integration of University of Georgia; Don Hollowell; A. T. Walden; interplay of different generations in civil rights activism in Atlanta; Leroy Johnson; women in Atlanta movement; William B. Hartsfield; Dr. Rufus Clemens; Ruth Sturdivant; Lottie Watkins; Pearl Henderson; NAACP; Morehouse; Spelman; Morris Brown; Clark Atlanta University; Wesley Law; ACCA; Carl Holman; Atlanta Inquirer; “The Second Look”; Booker T. Washington; Atlanta Daily World; Atlanta Voice; Brown’s views on busing; Brown’s time at Howard University; Horace Ward’s election to the Georgia Senate; Phi Beta Sigma; Atlanta Urban League; Georgia reapportionment; Reverend William Holmes Borders; Brown’s first campaign for state legislature, 1965; Irving Kaler; Al Kerr; Julian Bond’s campaign for state legislature, 1965; Julian Bond controversy 1966.

Ben Brown (1939-1999) was born in Montezuma, Georgia, was active in civil rights activities in Atlanta in the 1960s, and served in the Georgia House of Representatives 1966, 1969-77. He resigned in 1977 to take a position in the Carter administration.