1914–1965
Biography · Civil Rights
Amos Brown
1941–
United States
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Amos Cleophilus Brown (born February 20, 1941) is an African American pastor and civil rights activist. He is the president of the San Francisco branch of the NAACP, and was head pastor of the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco from 1976 through 2025. Brown was one of only eight students who took the only college class ever taught by Martin Luther King Jr. He serves on the board of the California Reparations Task Force.
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