Edgar George Brown

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[1] and advocate for low paid African American laborers.

He was a four-time American Tennis Association champion[2] (1922, 1923, 1928 and 1929).

[4] He was a member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Black Cabinet, a founding member of the National Negro Council, and the United Government Employees Union.

In July 1941, Brown staged a one-person sit-down strike in Washington National Airport's main coffee shop after being refused a cup because of his being Black.