SAN FRANCISCO — Amos Brown’s office is a civil rights museum. History covers every wall and desktop.
Anticipation accompanies the walk up two flights of stairs at the Third Baptist Church, built in the 1950s. You know what awaits: photographs of the Rev. Dr. Brown with Nelson Mandela, four U.S. presidents, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
But you don’t know what you don’t know. The surprises begin just inside the outer door, yards from his desk…