Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, (born October 4, 1943, as Hubert Gerold Brown), also known as H. Rap Brown, was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, and during a short-lived (six months) alliance between SNCC and the Black Panther Party, he served as their Minister of Justice. He is perhaps most famous for his proclamation during that period that "violence is as American as cherry pie", as well as once stating that "If America don't come around, we're gonna burn it down". He is also known for his autobiography Die Nigger Die!. He is currently serving a life sentence for murder following the 2000 shooting of two Fulton County Sheriff's deputies, both black. One deputy, Ricky Kinchen, died in the shooting.
Jurors deliberated 10 hours over two days before finding the Muslim cleric now called Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin guilty of shooting to death Deputy Ricky Kinchen and wounding Deputy Aldranon English on a southwest Atlanta street.
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Al-Amin leads one of the nation's largest black Muslim groups, the National Ummah. The movement, which has formed 36 mosques around the nation, is credited with revitalizing poverty-stricken pockets such as Atlanta's West End, where Al-Amin owned a grocery store.
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Al-Amin is better known as H. Rap Brown, who served as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In 1967, he characterized violence as a vital tool for blacks, "as American as cherry pie."
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Brown changed his name when he converted to the Dar-ul Islam movement in the '70s while serving a five-year sentence for his role in a robbery that ended in a shootout with New York police.
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Year
Status
Character
The Fall
1969
Documentary
Himself
Huey
1969
Documentary short
Himself
Archive Footage
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Status
Character
P.O.V.
2003
TV Series documentary
Himself
A Huey P. Newton Story
2001
TV Movie documentary
Himself (uncredited)
All Power to the People
1996
Documentary
Himself
Arena
1984
TV Series documentary
Himself
Malcolm X
1972
Documentary
Himself (as Rap Brown)
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
2014
Documentary
Himself
The Sixties
2014
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - Civil Rights Activist
Birth of the Living Dead
2013
Documentary
Himself
The Trials of Muhammad Ali
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Documentary
Himself
Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football
$800,000
