Article: Memories of Sterling Brown.

Nearly fifty years ago, Sterling Brown lived a short distance across the street from the home of my uncle, Dr. James (Jim) Roberts, at 1209 Kearney Street, N.E., in the area called Brookland out beyond Catholic University. Jim Roberts had come down to Howard from the coal patch of Standard Shaft No. 1 of the Henry Clay Frick Company, Pennsylvania, in 1926 and had gone on to Howard Medical School to become a gynecologist and obstetrician. He encouraged his brothers Bob, Henry, and Russell to join him in Washington after World War II, and in 1948 they started the Empire Diaper-Linen Company, a commercial laundry.

Sterling Brown was an ardent supporter of black business, ...

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