found: African American National Biography, accessed December 27, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Brown, Frank London; fiction writer, musician, journalist, civil rights activist; born 7 October 1927 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States; credited with being the first person to recite short stories (as opposed to poetry) to a jazz music accompaniment; attended Wilberforce University in Ohio (1945); left without receiving a degree and joined the U.S. Army (1946-1948); received a BA in political science from Roosevelt University (1951); graduated with master's degree in social science and doctoral studies in political science from University of Chicago (1960); did not complete his PhD because of his early death (1962); was an organizer for United Packinghouse Workers and other labor unions; appointed director of University of Chicago's Union Research Center; helped a black men escape from Mississippi after the lynching of Emmett Louis Till (1955) which he covered as a journalist; worked for Chicago Review, Down Beat, Ebony, and Negro Digest; was an associate editor of Ebony (1959); died 12 March 1962 in Chicago, Illinois, United States)