Substitute Corr stroked in Ben Coker's cross from eight yards for his his sixth goal of the season in the 83rd minute, but Brown was sent to the stands one minute later after reacting to abuse from the home support.
Angry Shrimpers boss Brown fumed:
"With Nigel Pearson getting done for what he did I think it's almost given the supporter the licence to slag me off when I'm standing there and I can't retort. And for the fourth official to get involved, do me a favour. It's an absolute embarrassment. The referee's hand was forced and I was put in the stand with the very people who were abusing me."
Brown continued:
"I was getting abused in no uncertain terms and I replied to the abuse and the fourth official said I'm not allowed to do things like that. I said 'Do things like what?' and he hadn't a quote for me and he said it was some sort of signal to the supporter. He's got it so wrong, he absolutely has got it so wrong and and he's forced the referee's hand and he's put me in the stand.
"Now there's no facility for a manager so I'm sitting with the supporters who've been abusing me and that is not safe. And then I got rescued by a Southend supporter who's from Eastenders. I'm sitting in a box with him and I was as nervous as hell in with the supporters.
"The game's got it wrong. It's got it wrong. When a supporter can give you abuse.
"Oxford United have got good supporters, I believe that and the ones around the touch line and the dugout in particular have got to hold their abuse for want of a better word. It's abuse, end of story and if we're not allowed to protect ourselves, the game's going the wrong way.
"I'll stand hand on a bible if necessary in a court of law - I've not abused anybody. It's provocation.
"I have to conduct myself in the right way. Supporters can get together and conjure up a story if they want to, but the fourth official is bang out of order. And I mean bang out of order.
"If I'm going to get fined for that then fine me, but he's bang out of order for what he did. He was after me for the majority of the game because I was maybe six inches, a yard, half a yard, six inches - he kept on about the white line in front of me. I'm not saying 'get a life' or anything like that because they've got a difficult job, but the fourth official's bang out of order and needs to take a long hard look at himself for forcing the referee's hand to send me to the stands for something as trivial as what's happened. And it was provoked by the supporter."
Midfielder Callum O'Dowda had put Oxford ahead in the thirteenth minute with his second of the campaign after Danny Hylton combined with co-striker Will Hoskins to give him space to slide a low shot past helpless keeper Daniel Bentley.
Southend replied twelve minutes later when winger David Worrall found himself unmarked six yards in front of goal and nodded in a cross from left back Coker for his fifth goal of the season.
In the 34th minute when midfielder Gary Deegan rashly scythed down opposite number Michael Collins to earn a second yellow card and defender Sam Long took advantage on the stroke of half time when he met O'Dowda's right wing corner to bury a bullet header from six yards.
Striker Joe Pigott equalised three minutes into the second half with a diving header from four yards to convert another Coker cross.
Disappointed Oxford manager Michael Appleton said:
"We got ourselves into a winning position, made positive changes and then gave away a sloppy goal after half time."
"I was getting abused in no uncertain terms and I replied to the abuse and the fourth official said I'm not allowed to do things like that. I said 'Do things like what?' and he hadn't a quote for me and he said it was some sort of signal to the supporter. He's got it so wrong, he absolutely has got it so wrong and and he's forced the referee's hand and he's put me in the stand.
"Now there's no facility for a manager so I'm sitting with the supporters who've been abusing me and that is not safe. And then I got rescued by a Southend supporter who's from Eastenders. I'm sitting in a box with him and I was as nervous as hell in with the supporters.
"The game's got it wrong. It's got it wrong. When a supporter can give you abuse.
"Oxford United have got good supporters, I believe that and the ones around the touch line and the dugout in particular have got to hold their abuse for want of a better word. It's abuse, end of story and if we're not allowed to protect ourselves, the game's going the wrong way.
"I'll stand hand on a bible if necessary in a court of law - I've not abused anybody. It's provocation.
"I have to conduct myself in the right way. Supporters can get together and conjure up a story if they want to, but the fourth official is bang out of order. And I mean bang out of order.
"If I'm going to get fined for that then fine me, but he's bang out of order for what he did. He was after me for the majority of the game because I was maybe six inches, a yard, half a yard, six inches - he kept on about the white line in front of me. I'm not saying 'get a life' or anything like that because they've got a difficult job, but the fourth official's bang out of order and needs to take a long hard look at himself for forcing the referee's hand to send me to the stands for something as trivial as what's happened. And it was provoked by the supporter."
Midfielder Callum O'Dowda had put Oxford ahead in the thirteenth minute with his second of the campaign after Danny Hylton combined with co-striker Will Hoskins to give him space to slide a low shot past helpless keeper Daniel Bentley.
Southend replied twelve minutes later when winger David Worrall found himself unmarked six yards in front of goal and nodded in a cross from left back Coker for his fifth goal of the season.
In the 34th minute when midfielder Gary Deegan rashly scythed down opposite number Michael Collins to earn a second yellow card and defender Sam Long took advantage on the stroke of half time when he met O'Dowda's right wing corner to bury a bullet header from six yards.
Striker Joe Pigott equalised three minutes into the second half with a diving header from four yards to convert another Coker cross.
Disappointed Oxford manager Michael Appleton said:
"We got ourselves into a winning position, made positive changes and then gave away a sloppy goal after half time."
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