Editing H. Rap Brown (section)

==1970 and later life==
[[File:D011778h.gif|thumb|Brown, center, is seen in this April 1968 file photo with his lawyer, [[William M. Kunstler]], left.)]]
Brown disappeared for 18 months. He was posted on the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]'s [[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives|Ten Most Wanted List]].<!-- Wanted for what? Did he fail to report for trial? --> He was arrested after a reported shootout with officers in New York City following an alleged attempted robbery of a bar there. He was convicted of robbery and served five years (1971–76) in [[Attica Correctional Facility|Attica Prison]] in western New York state. While in prison, Brown converted to [[Islam]]. He formally changed his name from Hubert Gerold Brown to Jamil Abdullah al-Amin.

After his release, he moved to [[Atlanta, Georgia]], where he opened a grocery store. He became an imam, a Muslim spiritual leader, in the National Ummah, one of the nation's largest black Muslim groups. He also was a community activist in [[West End, Atlanta|Atlanta's West End]] neighborhood. He preached against drugs and gambling. It has since been suggested that al-Amin changed his life again when he became affiliated with the Dar ul-Islam Movement.<ref>{{cite book |title=Black America, Prisons, and Radical Islam |publisher=Center for Islamic Pluralism |date=September 2008 |url=http://www.islamicpluralism.org/documents/black-america-prisons-radical-islam.pdf |isbn=978-0-9558779-1-9 |access-date=2010-02-14}}</ref><!-- Needs some explanation as to why this is significant -->