Edward Everett Brown (1858 – January 14, 1919) was an American lawyer, author, civil servant, and orator in Boston, Massachusetts.

[1] Edward Everett Brown was born on 1858 in Dover, New Hampshire, to parents Martha A.

In 1885, Brown and friend George C. Freeman were denied entrance to a roller skating rink in Boston, called Highland Rink; Brown and lawyer James Harris Wolff took the rink owner David H. McKay to the Roxbury Municipal Court for racial discrimination and violating a 1865 state law from the Reconstruction-era.

[5][6] In 1886, he became a partner at the law firm Walker, Wolff, and Brown, led by Brown, Edwin Garrison Walker, and James Harris Wolff, and it was Boston's first "colored" law firm.

[1] Brown wrote the book, "Sketch of the Life of Mr. Lewis Charlton, and Reminiscences of Slavery" (c. 1870, Daily Press Print) about Lewis Charlton, a formerly enslaved person who became a school founder, and temperance advocate.