reverend amos brown. [applause] [cheering] >> so known among world leaders, presidents, celebrities, and academicians, for his intellectual discipline and masterful oratory, dr. brown his own time. tutored by samuel williams, pias barber, and the late dr. martin luther king, junior, dr. brown has seen the issues of society as separate -- has never seen the issues of society as separate from the mission of the church, especially when members of the church are directly affected by systems of evil. born in jackson, mississippi, in 1941, dr. brown had a fire for activism and justice from a very early age. reverend brown organized the naacp, and criticized segregated schools. he met with dr. martin luther king in 1956 and was hand-picked to attend a social philosophy sem maseminar taught by doctor king. he earned his master's of divinity and doctrine. before accepting the call to lead san francisco's third baptist church, he seived as pastoserved as pastort chester pennsylvania and as pastor in minnesota. star