A Conversation with Luvaghn Brown, Civil Rights Activist
Davis Auditorium, Gateway Center
At the age of sixteen, Luvaghn Brown (also known as Luvaghn Stamps) was arrested for his participation in a sit-in in a Jackson, Mississippi Walgreens lunch counter on July 11, 1961. In October of that year, he was also arrested while picketing outside Jackson’s fairgrounds. In August of 1962, Brown would join the SNCC staff in Greenwood, Mississippi.