Cleo Scott Brown

CLEO SCOTT BROWN writes and speaks nationally on issues of race and voting, using history and storytelling to connect head and heart. She owns History Matters Institute, specializing in using the past to help people better understand the present.

Cleo’s parents were involved in a 1962 federal voting rights case that exposed her as a child to many years of random acts of terror, a story she recorded in her first book “Witness to the Truth” (Univ. of South Carolina Press), a Ouachita Parish River Reads selection. Her second book, “Raceology 101: Fundamentals for Understanding & Change”, was first place winner in the National Federation of Press Women Non-Fiction Competition. Her commentaries have appeared in the Post & Courier (Charleston) and in national blogs. She is also a contributor to Harvard University’s African American National Biography.

Cleo is graduate of Grambling State University. She resides in Goose Creek, SC.