Amos Brown

Amos C. Brown
Brown in 2013
Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for the at-large district
In office
June 1, 1996 – January 8, 2001
Preceded byCarole Migden
Succeeded byGerardo Sandoval (redistricted)
Personal details
BornAmos Cleophilus Brown
(1941-02-20) February 20, 1941
SpouseJane Smith Brown
Alma materMorehouse College (BA)
Crozer Theological Seminary (M.Div.)
United Theological Seminary (D.Min)
Occupation
  • Pastor
  • activist
  • politician

Amos Cleophilus Brown (born February 20, 1941) is an African American pastor and civil rights activist. He is the president of the San Francisco branch of the NAACP, and has been the pastor of the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco since 1976. Brown was one of only eight students who took the only college class ever taught by Martin Luther King Jr. He serves on the board of the California Reparations Task Force.