MEET REVEREND WALTER R. BROWN JR.

Reverend Walter Rodgers Brown, Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi and attended Winston County Training School in Louisville, Mississippi until moving with his family to Evansville at the age of 8 years old. Reverend Brown Jr. graduated from Central High School, and matriculated to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was active in the civil rights movement, as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He spent 5 days in jail for participating in protest in the 1960s. In 1972, Reverend Brown Jr. accepted the call to the ministry, and served as Co-Pastor of New Hope Missionary Baptist Church for more than 23 years. In addition, he was an assistant to his father, Reverend Walter Rogers Brown Sr., a civil rights activist leader and religious public figure in his own right. Reverend Walter R. Brown Jr’s pastoral experience includes coursework in Clinical Pastoral Counseling through Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he was Chaplain at East Mississippi State Hospital. He is one of the founding members of the Evansville Vanderburgh County Jail Task Force. Reverend Brown Jr. has served as Executive Director of PEP (President’s Executive Counsel Retreat and Pastor’s Conference) of the National Baptist Convention USA, Inc. with 8.5 million members, the largest black religious organization in the world. His evangelism includes preaching at revivals in Mississippi, Pennsylvania, New York, and California.