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Edgar George Brown

1898–1954

United States

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Edgar George Brown (1898–1954) was a civil rights advocate, tennis player, union organizer, and politician in the United States. He was active in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Northwest Washington, D.C., where he was a lobbyist and advocate for low paid African American laborers. He was born in Sandoval, Illinois.

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