Today, Amos Brown is president of the NAACP’s San Francisco Chapter and pastor of Third Baptist Church, the oldest Black church in San Francisco.
In the summer of 1956, two men piled into a 1955 Oldsmobile nicknamed the “blue goose” and drove 2,000 miles west, from their hometown of Jackson, Miss., to downtown San Francisco.
Brown spoke to The Examiner last month, just days after returning from a trip to Jackson, for a memorial commemorating the 60th anniversary of Evers’ death. He was assassinated by a white supremacist in the driveway of his Jackson home. “As a young 14-year-old boy, I was aware of all of that,” he said. “It was common sport for white supremacists to murder, to lynch Black folks. They were never brought to justice.”
67 years later, Brown remembers every stop along the way: Vicksburg, Miss., Shreveport, La., Dallas and Amarillo, Texas; Santa Fe, N.M.; Flagstaff, Ariz.; Needles — and finally through the Central Valley and up to the Bay Area.The convention at the Civic Auditorium lasted from June 26 to July 1. Every day, Brown walked from a friend’s home at Fulton and Divisadero streets — he didn’t have enough money for a hotel — to meet the more than 1,000 other NAACP delegates from 35 states.
In addition to King, Brown met Thurgood Marshall, who gave the keynote address; Rosa Parks, a featured guest; and other leaders he described as “iconic personalities.” Brown skipped the convention only once — to worship, for the first time, at Third Baptist Church’s service Sunday morning. He sat on the fourth pew “with rapt interest and attention” as Rev. Frederick Douglas Haynes — who became in 1945 the first Black person to run for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors — spoke from the pulpit.
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