H. Rap Brown

1943-10-04 – 2025-11-23 (age 82) Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Biography

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, is a civil rights activist, black separatist, and convicted criminal who was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s.

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Known For

The Fall

1969

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

1970

as Self (archive footage)

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

2004

as Self (archive footage)

Malcolm X

1972

as Self (archive footage) (as Rap Brown)

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But... Seriously

1994

as Self (archive footage)

A Huey P. Newton Story

2001

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Black Panthers

1968

as Self

The Trials of Muhammad Ali

2013

as Self (archive footage)

All Power to the People!

1996

as Self (archive footage)

Black Power Salute

2008

as Self (archive footage)

RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy

2007

as Self (archive footage)

The FBI's War on Black America

1990

as Self

It Felt Like a Kiss

2009

Revolution Underway

1968