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al-Amin, Jamil Abdullah (1943– )| US political activist and author. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), he emerged with Stokely Carmichael as an advocate of black power in 1966. Brown was imprisoned for armed robbery in 1974, and during his sentence converted to the Islamic faith, taking the name Jamil Abdullah al-Amin. His writings include Die Nigger Die (1969). More recently, he has written and lectured for the Dial Press. |
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