000001748 001__ 1748 000001748 005__ 20220523160057.0 000001748 035__ $$a94564 000001748 245__ $$aWilliam Washington Browne (1849–1897) 000001748 269__ $$a1890 000001748 336__ $$aBlack and White 000001748 520__ $$aWilliam Washingon Browne, from `Negro Stars in All Ages of the World` by W. H. Quick, L. L. B. Browne was a champion of empancipation and joined the Union Army in 1862 when the Army seized Memphis, Tennessee.  Browne was an outspoken critic of the Ku Klux Klan, and avid Temperance activist and was a Methodist minister of the Leigh Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia. The only possible Charlotte connection may have been with the Temperance organization the United Order of True Reformers. Physical Description: Publisher: Unknown 000001748 6531_ $$aWilliam Washington Browne, Military, People, City and Town Life 000001748 8564_ $$90736d9e7-9bf5-4dc2-99fe-01fed7bc4944$$s8544$$uhttps://vault.cmlibrary.org/record/1748/files/AA_2004_05_0224_03.jpg 000001748 901__ $$aAA_2004_05_0224_03.jpg (8.34 KB) 000001748 982__ $$aAfrican American