Lloyd Louis Brown (April 3, 1913 – April 1, 2003) was an American labor organizer, Communist Party activist, journalist, novelist, friend and editorial companion of Paul Robeson's, and a Robeson biographer.
Brown was born Lloyd Dight in St. Paul, Minnesota, son of African-American Ralph Dight, a waiter originally from Alabama, and Magdalena Paul Dight, from Stearns County, Minnesota.
Brown and his three siblings were raised Roman Catholic and attended St. Peter Claver Church in St. Paul, an African-American parish. After... more
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