Mother of the Movement - Louise Brown, CHS, SC

Help us present Louise Brown with a birthday present which will allow her to focus on leading new generations towards a better Lowcountry. You can contribute to her birthday fund by making a deposit to the account listed on the deposit slip shown below on this page.   When Louise Brown was finally driven from Charleston after the Hospital Strike, unable to find work of any kind, she had almost nothing. She would prosper in family and friends. She finally received the grudging recognition that she is one of Charleston's hero's (recognition which came too late for most of the other 11 nurses which stood with her). However that recognition arrived only decades after those great events had been absorbed into Charleston's distorted story of it self.  Louise never received the back pay she was promised when the MUSC hospital strike was settled. The happy ending Charleston is so eager to recite, contains a grievous falsehood.  The official histories circulating online will tell ...

 As planning and permitting are completed, a full schedule of events will be posted here. Updates are posted on blue sky using hashtag #lbrown90 and #TIDEmobilize and Lowcountry Up is Good Facebook page. This page will be improved after William Hamilton is releases from the hospital SCHEDULE OF EVENTS April 28, Monday- Louise Brown returns to Charleston on board the Amtrak Silver Palmetto at the Train Station in North Charleston.TIDEmobilize Train arrival times vary. Check with Amtrak or contact William Hamilton 843-870-5for Updates May 1- Actual Birthday of Lousie Brown, 1935. Also Law Day, International 299Workers Day and the birtsing hastagshday of Jackson Hamilton, her adopted grandson. Louise will participate in local labor actions that day May 2- Making America Righteous Again - Panel Discussion at Parkside Church, 10 am. Spiritualty and Social Justice in America's Next Century. Panel members include professor & author Damon Fordham; Joe McGill, Director of th...

Image, Right, Alan Morris of SC Defense of Democracy with Louise at a demonstration on Daniel Island on April 5, 2025 May 1-4 the Lowcountry will celebrate the life and labor of Louise Brown, our region's most senior veteran of the classical civil rights era and the only leader of that time still standing as an advocate for social justice today. Read the tentative schedule of events.  80 Yea rs in Charleston's Struggle for Civi Rights SC was a battleground in the Civil Rights movement. However, history tends to focus on other states and events. Charleston was always a center of black power and resistance. With three museums in the holy city and one academic institute focused on (and now fighting for the recollected African American experience and history), we're not going to try to cover it all here. Black Charleston has always mattered. You can come to the Holy City and spend a week immersed in the history, eating the food, touring the landscape and hearing the music. An e...