Browning was born and raised in rural Georgia, and started college in 1959 at
Georgia State College for Women at the age of sixteen. While there she began to be involved in the freedom rider movement, and her involvement in the movement ultimately led to her 1961 dismissal from the college because of her decision to attend a black church. Browning would go on to graduate from West Virginia State College, now known as
West Virginia State University in 1994. and she writes on the historical details of the civil rights movement using biographies such as her article on the activist
Fannie Lou Hamer. == Selected publications ==