[8] She took a job as a waitress in Biloxi, which is where she met civil rights leaders and attorneys Jack H. Young, R. Jess Brown, and Carsie Hall.
[3] It was common during the 1960s for the Election Commissioner to ask random questions, in order to pass the voter registration test.
[12] During the civil rights movement in the 1960s, she helped register thousands of voters in the state of Mississippi.
[2] In 1966, after the March Against Fear where James Meredith was shot, Martin Luther King Jr. brought three thousand protestors to Canton and asked for Brown-Wright's help with finding them accommodations.
[9] Between 1969 and 1973, Brown Wright served as vice president of the Institute of Politics at Millsaps College.
[2] She also went on national tours to give lectures and workshops on voting rights,[9][12][14] and served as president of the non-profit organization Women for Progress in Mississippi.