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Al-Amin, Jamil, 1943-

Alternate Names

H. Rap Brown

Birth Date

1943-10-04

Description

Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, is an American Muslim cleric who was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s. Best known as H. Rap Brown, he served as the Black Panther Party's minister of justice during a short-lived alliance between SNCC and the Black Panther Party.