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- NAME: Jim Brown
- OCCUPATION: Activist, Film Actor, Football Player
- BIRTH DATE: February 17, 1936 (Age: 77)
- EDUCATION: Manhasset High School, Syracuse University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: St. Simons Island, Georgia
- Full Name: James Nathaniel Brown
- Nickname: Jim Brown
- AKA: James Brown
- ZODIAC SIGN: Aquarius
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Jim Brown is a record-holding, former NFL fullback who's been elected to his sport's Hall of Fame and who's also worked as a model and film actor.
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But trouble also followed the temperamental Brown. For much of his adult life he's been dogged by accusations of assault. In 1968 he was accused of his throwing his then girlfriend off a second-story balcony. The following year he managed to escape charges that alleged he assaulted another man following a traffic accident.
More recently, in 1999, Brown was convicted of smashing the window of his wife's car. After refusing to attend counseling,
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Brown served a six-month jail sentence in 2002.
But Brown's life has also been defined by his support of African-American causes. In the 1960s he threw his support behind black-owned business by helping to create the Negro Industrial Economic Union. In the late 1980s he started the Amer-I-Can program, which aimed to turn the lives around of young gang members. He's also been fiercely critical of modern black athletes, such as Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson, for not being better role models for younger black athletes.
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