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  Elaine Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elaine Brown (born March 2, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a prominent African American activist.
She befriended some white Jewish girls, and from that point on, was able to act "white" while hanging out with her school friends, and "fl" when with the girls in her neighborhood.
Brown was disqualified from the Brunswick elections as both a candidate and voter due to her failure to establish proof that she met the city charter's residency requirements for all candidates.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elaine_Brown   (399 words)

  
 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Elaine Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Brown had a somewhat different agenda, however, and while the other members of the Party were becoming increasingly militant, Brown was pushing for social welfare for the Black community.
Elaine Brown fought for her beliefs, as did the radicals and not so radicals of the 1960s and 1970s.
Brown's life testifies to a power greater than the power of the Black Panther Party; her life testifies to the power of a human being, a Black woman, who was willing to endure a great deal for the cause of bettering society.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Elaine-Brown   (1003 words)

  
 2005.04.26: Elaine Brown Runs for Mayor
Elaine Brown gave a speech Saturday evening, April 23, to a full house at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on "From Revolution to the Ballot Box: A Discussion of Strategy for Radical Change." The event was sponsored by the Green Institute, an independent tax-exempt organization.
Elaine Brown is a former leading member of the Black Panther Party and author of A Taste of Power and The Condemnation of Little B. A Taste of Power, Brown's memoir, is slated for film production by Suzanne de Passe, Emmy-award winning president of de Passe Entertainment.
Brown is Executive Director of the Michael Lewis Legal Defense Committee, organized to support the legal appeal of Lewis ("Little B"), who, arrested at the age of 13 for a murder he did not commit, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison (1997).
www.gp.org /press/pr_2005_04_26.html   (541 words)

  
 ELAINE BROWN A Brief Biography
Brown, who twice ran for public office as a member of the Black Panther Party, recently moved to Brunswick, Georgia, to run for mayor (in the November 2005 election), toward creating a base of economic power for the city’s majority fl and poor population through redistribution of the massive revenues of the city’s powerful port.
Brown is Executive Director of the Michael Lewis Legal Defense Committee, supporting the legal appeal of Lewis (“Little B”), who, arrested at the age of 13 for a murder he did not commit, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison (1997).
Brown lectures at colleges and universities throughout the country on “New Age Racism” and realization of the vision of eliminating racism, gender oppression and class disparity toward an inclusive and egalitarian world society.
www.unm.edu /~afamstds/elaine_brown_a_brief_biography.htm   (388 words)

  
 Betty Van Patter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Later that year, after a dispute with Brown allegedly over financial irregularities, she went missing on December 13, 1974 and some weeks later her severely beaten corpse was found on a San Francisco Bay beach.
Though the case remains officially unsolved, former Panther supporter David Horowitz has maintained for years that Elaine Brown was directly responsible for the murder and that it occurred because Brown believed Van Patter was about to "blow the whistle" on the misappropriation of funds by certain party members.
Brown's 1992 book A Taste of Power falsely claimed that Van Patter had a criminal past and had been convicted of drug trafficking.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Betty_Van_Patter   (202 words)

  
 2003 Group 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Elaine Brown, a longtime resident of Jacksonville, became a member of the City Council on July 1, 1999 and was elected President of the Council for the 2004-2005 Council year.
Elaine is also a strong proponent of affordable housing and has been at the forefront to advocate the elimination of substandard housing in Jacksonville.
Elaine is on the Board of Directors of the Bridge of Northeast Florida, the Duval County Teen Court and Community Connections (formerly the YWCA).
www.coj.net /City+Council/2003+Group+2.htm   (570 words)

  
 2005.10.19: Elaine Brown Fights Disqualification
Brown has asserted that her residency was sufficiently established by November 5, 2004, when she registered to vote in Brunswick, in accord with the one-year residency requirement for a candidate to appear on the ballot on November 8, 2005.
Brown has cited a Georgia Supreme Court decision confirming that registration in time for the election in which a candidate seeks to participate is sufficient for the purpose of seeking local office.
Elaine Brown, a leader of the Black Panther Party in the 1970s, received an endorsement for her 2005 campaign from Rev. Al Sharpton in August.
www.gp.org /press/pr_2005_10_19.shtml   (684 words)

  
 Brown's A Taste of Power : A Black Woman's Story : In 5 pages, the author discusses Elaine Brown's A Taste of Power : A ...
Brown was the illegitimate daughter of a dentist Her mother was working class.
Brown was able to complete her grade and high school education and go on to college.
Brown, unlike many, however, was diligent pioneering the way for all women of all races, not just her own.
www.007termpapers.com /sample1.htm   (1114 words)

  
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Elaine Brown, an intense woman with a sadistic streak led the Panthers toward new brutalities.
Brown’s temperament made her well suited for Panther leadership: she was equally at ease moving between the world of the Panthers’ white liberal supporters and the violent world of the street.
Brown is better known, however, for her aforementioned autobiography A Taste of Power — her revisionist history of the Black Panthers, whose members killed more than a dozen people in Oakland’s ghetto neighborhoods.
www.discoverthenetwork.org /printindividualProfile.asp?indid=1696   (692 words)

  
 Fight Back! - Nov 2005 - Elaine Brown Back in Election Fight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Brown’s re-entry as a write-in candidate was announced on the eve of election day, following a judge’s court ruling in her favor.
Brown, a former leader of the Black Panther Party, is running a campaign to see the development of Brunswick’s port to benefit all the residents.
Brown had been disqualified as a candidate by the Board of Elections last month and removed from the ballot.
www.fightbacknews.org /2005/05/elainebrown2.htm   (243 words)

  
 Carthage - Heritage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Brown criticized the public's perception of "fl-on-fl" crime, and she stated that "white-on-white" crime is actually more prevalent.
Brown refuted the theory of the Bell Curve that states that African Americans are inferior to Caucasians.
Brown cited the University of California university system to support her argument that SAT scores are not reliable measures of intelligence, and thus not helpful for college admissions.
www.carthage.edu /dept/heritage/events/ebrown.htm   (505 words)

  
 Heresy Warning!- THE TRUTH ABOUT REBECCA BROWN M.D.
Rebecca Brown and Elaine (no last name is given), have told their story to Jack Chick, whose Chick Publications company has published it in two cassette tapes, Closet Witches 1 and Closet Witches 2, and two books, He Came To Set The Captives Free and Prepare for War.
Elaine goes on to tell of events that led her to further involvement in witchcraft and satanism.
One medical record says Elaine has a "mixed personality disorder," and "is of questionable reliability." (40) This is evident when the cassette tape version of her testimony is compared with the book version and when one looks carefully at the story she and Rebecca have told.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/2919/brown.html   (3337 words)

  
 Salon News | A Black Panther's last hurrah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
But Elaine Brown and her Panther allies have never let the truth block their drive for power, and as they come together behind Hilliard's City Council race -- expelled Panther Bobby Seale is Hilliard's nominal campaign manager -- they won't start now.
Ironically, it was Jerry Brown's mayoral candidacy that got Hilliard moving on the path to electoral office, and it was Elaine Brown who reconnected Hilliard with the former governor -- once her close ally and sometime consort -- when he decided to run for mayor in 1997.
Brown's campaign was perhaps the apex of local influence for Hilliard and Elaine Brown in their decade-long political comeback bid, which had begun with the murder of their old friend, Panther leader Huey Newton, a crack addict who was shot by a dealer in West Oakland in 1989.
www.salon.com /news/feature/2000/03/06/hilliard   (692 words)

  
 Speak Out - Biography and Booking Information: Elaine Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Elaine Brown became, in 1974, the first and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party.
Brown's latest book is New Age Racism and the Condemnation of “Little B” (Beacon Press, 2002), the story of Michael “Little B” Lewis, a 14-year-old sentenced to life in prison for a Georgia murder Brown says he did not commit.
Brown re-recorded one of her original songs for the new Black Panther Records label, on a CD featuring hip hop artists, The FUGITIVES.
www.speakersandartists.org /People/ElaineBrown.html   (377 words)

  
 Elaine Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Elaine Brown, formerly chairman of the Black Panther Party, is the author of A Taste of Power and The Condemnation of Little B.
Elaine has been interviewed on innumerable television and radio programs, participated in seminars and conferences throughout the United States and the world, and she lectures regularly at the nation's top colleges and universities about her vision of a world without racism, sexism, oppression or class disparity.
Today, Elaine serves as Vice President of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, is executive director of the Michael Lewis (“Little B”) Legal Defense Fund, a co-founder of Mothers Advocating Juvenile Justice and the National Alliance for Radical Prison Reform and is a member of the Geechee Council of Georgia.
seizethetime.com /elainebrown.htm   (281 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story: Books: Elaine Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Brown here relates the dramatic story of her youth, her political awakening and her role in the Black Panther Party when she succeeded her lover Huey Newton to become the group's first female leader.
Brown's memoir takes her from a Philadelphia ghetto to California, from college to cocktail waitressing, from wanting to be white to joining the fl power movement.
In "A Taste of Power", Elaine Brown describes acts of brutal bloody violence as giving her an almost sexual pleasure, saying, "It is a sensuous thing to know that at one's will an enemy can be struck down" and she compares her pleasure in violence to "the tremor before orgasm".
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1559948302?v=glance   (1336 words)

  
 The Ridgway Record   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Elaine Isaacson Brown made history for women and for Ridgway when she became the first American woman to conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy in 1972.
Brown was honored twice with awards from the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
Brown also for a brief period in her career headed the choral department of the Juilliard School, arguably America's most prestigious music school.
www.ridgwayrecord.com /articles/2005/03/23/news/news03.prt   (394 words)

  
 Why they fear Elaine Brown
SUPPORTERS OF Elaine Brown--the former Black Panther leader and candidate for mayor of Brunswick, Ga., representing the Green Party--are fighting a last-minute battle for her right to appear on the ballot.
As Socialist Worker went to press, a superior court had denied Brown’s appeal to be listed on the ballot as a candidate in the November 8 mayoral election, siding with an earlier Glynn County Board of Election ruling claiming that Brown had not established residency for long enough.
Elaine has made it clear in her campaign that it would not be business as usual, and Blacks would not be disenfranchised.
www.socialistworker.org /2005-2/565/565_02_ElaineBrown.shtml   (356 words)

  
 The Bizarre Case of Dr. Rebecca Brown
They have a new article about Rebecca Brown fron their journal, The Curse of Curse Theology, The Return of Rebecca Brown, M.D. Dr. Rebecca Brown is one of several Christian authors who claim to have been involved with underground Satanic cults.
Brown presents Elaine's stories as if they were truthful and accurate testimony and follows them up with bizarre stories of her own.
Elaine relates her recruitment into this cult at a young age, her rise to the level of "High Priestess" in the cult, and her deliverance from the cult with the help of Rebecca Brown.
www.answers.org /satan/brown.html   (2786 words)

  
 Group 2
Elaine Brown, a longtime resident of Jacksonville, became a member of the City Council on July 1, 1999.
Elaine is a member of the Jacksonville Oceanside Rotary and Jacksonville Community Council, Inc. and is a board member of JaxPride, the Kesler Mentoring Connection, The Bridge of Northeast Florida, and Community Connections (formerly the YWCA).
Elaine and her husband Dick have six children and a spoiled cat named Romeo (along with a new addition, a kitten names Juliet).
www.coj.net /City+Council/Group+2.htm   (457 words)

  
 Fight Back! - Nov 2005 - Georgia Election Stolen, Elaine Brown Fights On   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Elaine Brown, a former Black Panther Party leader, now running with the Green Party, faced a calculated campaign of electoral intimidation and personal disenfranchisement.
Brown’s post-election press release stated: “Even though the racist, Republican-backed opposition to Elaine Brown’s campaign for mayor of Brunswick, Georgia, succeeded in removing her name from the Nov. 8 ballot - and taking away her right to vote!
Brown plans a challenge in Federal Court with the aim of a new election.
www.fightbacknews.org /2005/05/elainefightson.htm   (245 words)

  
 The Florida Star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Brown spoke on what she will and can do for the citizens of Brunswick to help them achieve economic parity.
He reminded them that Elaine Brown may have just moved here but she already had roots here through relatives, such as Sadie Delaney, one of Brunswick’s first fl school teachers, who was also a fighter for freedom and economic parity.
Elaine Brown and LeRoy Dumas had already announced their intentions and another candidate, Betsy Bean, announced her intention to run Monday.
www.thefloridastar.com /fs/print.php?sid=354   (567 words)

  
 Respect Her Gangsta!: A Review of the Music of Elaine Brown
Brown’s lyrics call attention to the domestic terror of poverty which the downpressed have had to contend with for centuries.
Brown states that Jonathan, a seventeen year-old “man-child,” has provided an example for the elder generation to follow in the struggle for self-determination.
Elaine Brown is part of a historical legacy of “ride or die” women whose lives are characterized by an uncompromising love for the people, and an unrelenting practice of resistance, despite the brutal attacks of copious agents of white racist hegemony.
www.africaresource.com /proudflesh/vol1.2/norwood.html   (1543 words)

  
 Elaine Brown: Head of The Black Panthers- Black History Daily
Brown's appointment to the position of leader was a very drastic one for the party, which had been orchestrated by men and was a very male-oriented organization.
Brown was an active member of the community, assisting the party with Breakfast programs for children and assistance to the needy.
Through her documentation, and life, Elaine Brown has left a long-lasting legacy in the history of fl people and women, helping younger generations understand the struggle for equality--not only to defeat racism but, also sexism.
www.blackseek.com /bh/2001/18_ElaineBrown.htm   (206 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Forget Drugs, Oil, and SUVs: Evil is Nourished by Student Fees by Vic Spooner
In addition to regularly beating young Elaine Brown, Newton groomed her to be one of his closest lieutenants.
Elaine eventually fled to France, underwent extensive psychiatric treatment, and shacked up with a rich, white French socialist for several years.
Elaine's mediocre autobiography purposefully advertised her own radical credentials to campus groups that specialize in promoting anti-Americanism.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6060   (562 words)

  
 Ballot Access News » Blog Archive » Elaine Brown Write-ins Equal 13% of Total
Elaine Brown, Green Party candidate for Mayor of Brunswick, Georgia, was not on the ballot on November 8, but write-ins for her were tallied.
Elaine Brown has since filed appeal after appeal and filed other lawsuits challenging the Nov 8 Election results citing many violations and other reasons she cites in her lawsuits.
Brown has challenged the Glynn County Board of Elections ruling that removed her from the ballot in both Superior Court and U.S. District Court.
ballot-access.org /2005/11/11/elaine-brown-write-ins-equal-13-of-total   (986 words)

  
 Elaine Brown
Brown also continues to write songs, having released two albums of original songs in the early 1970s — Seize the Time (Vanguard Records) and Until We're Free (Motown).
Elaine Brown is former chairman of the Black Panther Party, lives in Atlanta and is a founder of Mothers Advocating Juvenile Justice.
In this same time frame, Brown was the target of a crusade to discredit and destroy him orchestrated by the then-governor of Maryland Spiro Agnew.
www.venusproject.com /books_authors/elaine_brown.html   (1566 words)

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