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Interests Birding Archives Community Rogues' Gallery Signs of the Times
Interests Birding Archives Community Rogues' Gallery Signs of the Times
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"Drewary John Birchard Brown, a Charlottesville civil rights leader with the common touch, picked up the torch of community activism in the 1960s and carried it into the 1990s" (Bob Gibson, The Daily Progress, April 12, 1998).
"Born Feb. 22, 1918, in Albemarle County and educated in segregated county public schools, Brown was a community organizer and president of the city chapter of the NAACP in the 1960s. He worked to provide job training and job opportunities for the poor" (Bob Gibson, The Daily Progress, April 12, 1998).
"A man whose rapid-fire speech overflowed with disarming humor, Brown inspired trust and could talk with anyone" (Bob Gibson, The Daily Progress, April 12, 1998).
"'People would take their problems and run them by Drewary, and he would do something about it,' said Robert L. Tinsley Sr. Of Cynthianna Avenue" (Bob Gibson, The Daily Progress, April 12, 1998).
"Ray Bell, a funeral director and fellow civil rights leader, said mothers with children in trouble often would call Brown for help" (Bob Gibson, The Daily Progress, April 12, 1998).
"'That darn telephone up there was like a police station,' Bell said. 'They would call on Drewary, and he would go on and do' whatever it took to help a child out of trouble. 'That was a part of his life,' Bell said" (Bob Gibson, The Daily Progress, April 12, 1998).
"For many a resident of the city, the intersection of black and white Charlottesville started with Brown" (Bob Gibson, The Daily Progress, April 12, 1998).
"'Everyone in the community turned to him, black and white, and that's about as high a compliment as you can pay anybody,' said James Harry Michael Jr., a U.S. District Court judge who often worked with Brown in the 1960s when Michael represented the city School Board as its lawyer and Brown headed the NAACP" (Bob Gibson, The Daily Progress, April 12, 1998).
"Drewary John Birchard Brown was a guiding hand, a caring man, a teacher, a father, a civil rights activist and a friend to many, those who knew him said at his funeral Saturday" (Maria Sanminiatelli, The Daily Progress, April 12, 1998).
"'This is your town, Drewary Brown. You helped us all: rich, white, black, poor,' said Alicia Lugo, a longtime friend of Brown and former Charlottesville School Board member" (Maria Sanminiatelli, The Daily Progress, April 12, 1998).
"Lugo was among the 400 area residents at the service, which also drew state and local government officials to First Baptist Church on Park Street in Charlottesville" (Maria Sanminiatelli, The Daily Progress, April 12, 1998).
"Brown, a founder of the Monticello Area Community Action Agency and president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the 1960s, died Monday at the University of Virginia Medical Center. He was 80" (Maria Sanminiatelli, The Daily Progress, April 12, 1998).
"He fought for desegregation and helped generations of youths find jobs at what is now called the Drewary J. Brown Job Training Center. Brown worked to help the poor, no matter their skin color, friends and relatives said" (Maria Sanminiatelli, The Daily Progress, April 12, 1998).
"'Mr. Brown has left a human and civil rights agenda for the rest of us to complete,' an absent friend said in a message Lugo read in church" (Maria Sanminiatelli, The Daily Progress, April 12, 1998).