![]() ![]() In 1977, she managed Lionel Wilson’s victorious campaign to become Oakland’s first black mayor. ![]() I knew I had to muster something mighty to manage the Black Panther Party."ĭuring Brown's leadership of the Black Panther Party, she focused on electoral politics and community service. If a black woman assumed a role of leadership, she was said to be eroding black manhood, to be hindering the progress of the black race. "A woman in the Black Power movement was considered, at best, irrelevant. In her 1992 memoir A Taste of Power, she wrote about the experience: The first woman to do so, Elaine Brown chaired the Black Panther Party from 1974 until 1977. When Newton fled to Cuba in 1974 in the face of murder charges, he appointed Brown to lead the Party. She currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and is a founder of Mothers Advocating Juvenile Justice. Brown briefly ran for the Green Party presidential nomination in 2008. Elaine Brown (born March 2, 1943) is an American prison activist, writer, singer, and former Black Panther Party chairman who is based in Oakland, California. ![]()
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