| LC control no. | no2005112547 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3552.R68549 |
| Personal name heading | Brown, Frank London |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 19271007 |
| Death date | 19620312 |
| Place of birth | Kansas City (Mo.) |
| Place of death | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Affiliation | Wilberforce University United States. Army Roosevelt University University of Chicago United Packinghouse Workers of America |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists Musicians Journalists Civil rights workers |
| Found in | Trumbull Park, 2005: t.p. (Frank London Brown) OCLC, Nov. 29, 2005 (hdgs.: Brown, Frank London; Brown, Frank London, 1927-1962; usage: Frank London Brown) African American National Biography, accessed December 27, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Brown, Frank London; fiction writer, musician, journalist, civil rights activist; born 7 October 1927 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States; credited with being the first person to recite short stories (as opposed to poetry) to a jazz music accompaniment; attended Wilberforce University in Ohio (1945); left without receiving a degree and joined the U.S. Army (1946-1948); received a BA in political science from Roosevelt University (1951); graduated with master's degree in social science and doctoral studies in political science from University of Chicago (1960); did not complete his PhD because of his early death (1962); was an organizer for United Packinghouse Workers and other labor unions; appointed director of University of Chicago's Union Research Center; helped a black men escape from Mississippi after the lynching of Emmett Louis Till (1955) which he covered as a journalist; worked for Chicago Review, Down Beat, Ebony, and Negro Digest; was an associate editor of Ebony (1959); died 12 March 1962 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) |
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