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Oscar Brown Jr. (October 10, 1926 – May 29, 2005) was an American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, and actor. Aside from his career, Brown ran unsuccessfully for office in both the Illinois state legislature and the U.S. Congress.
Oscar Brown, Jr. mounts his musical OPPORTUNITY PLEASE KNOCK, developed with and featuring the notorious street gang members of the Blackstone Rangers. Oscar’s intention to quell violence and influence self-sufficiency, by employing members of the gang to help them “come to their own economic rescue,” in his own words, this was a turning ...
Oscar Brown Jr.’s focus took a drastic turn by 1967, when he began working with the notorious Blackstone Rangers street gang, on Chicago’s Southside. “I want to fire these rounds of artistic ammunition at the whole situation.
10 de ene. de 2019 · Oscar Brown, Jr. by Maggie and Africa Brown. On October 10, 2017—what would have been prolific Chicago-born entertainer and activist Oscar Brown, Jr.’s 91st birthday—Maggie Brown happened to meet Dan Logan at the Logan Center’s fifth anniversary celebration.
Oscar Brown, Jr. began acting in the Black Radio Days series: Destination Freedom. A pioneering weekly drama series, written by Richard Durham, with scripts emphasizing the progress of African-Americans from the days of slavery and beyond to the ongoing struggle for racial justice.
Although he was a self proclaimed “entertainer,” he became a pioneer in the entertainment industry by writing and performing songs, poems, and plays about the celebration of African-American life, social justice, and racism, right at the time when the civil rights movement in the ‘60s was unfolding.
15 de dic. de 2003 · May 31, 2005 • We remember singer, poet, songwriter, playwright and social activist Oscar Brown, Jr., who died Sunday in Chicago. He was 78. Brown was signed as a Columbia Records singer in...
