Anderson Hunt Brown
A. H. Brown | |
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| Born | Anderson Hunt Brown April 23, 1880 |
| Died | October 24, 1974 |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Children | Willard L. Brown, Della Brown Taylor Hardman |
| Parent(s) | Henry Arnold Brown and Margaret Stewart Brown |
Anderson Hunt Brown (1880 – 1974) was an American businessman, real-estate developer, and civil rights activist.
As a very successful African-American man in West Virginia, A.H. Brown worked on behalf of citizens and residents of the Charleston Independent School District for the integration of public schools. In a lawsuit titled Brown vs. Board of Education (1928)—with NAACP lawyer T. G. Nutter representing Brown and others—the West Virginia Supreme Court desegregated the Charleston library.
Anderson's son, Willard L. Brown, became the first black judge in West Virginia and represented the state chapter of the NAACP in a case of racial discrimination in public schools. That filing became part of the historic U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation ruling in 1954.