![]() ![]() In her teenage years, Brown attended the Philadelphia High School for Girls. As a result of having a predominantly white peer group at school, Brown rarely associated with people of color throughout her childhood and into young adulthood. There, Brown learned ballet and classical piano. She managed to enroll her daughter in an experimental elementary school in an upper-class neighborhood where almost of her classmates were white. Dorothy worked constantly to ensure Brown could attend private schools and receive piano lessons. Despite this and the absence of a father in the family, Brown's mother, Dorothy, did all she could to insulate her daughter from the ill-effects of inner-city poverty. Born in 1943 in North Philadelphia, Brown grew up surrounded by abject poverty. Brown was the first and only woman to serve as a leader of the Black Panthers. American author and activist Elaine Brown’s memoir, A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story (1992), details Brown's childhood in North Philadelphia and the years she spent as chairwoman of the Black Panther Party. ![]()
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