The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable Marion Barry

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable Marion Barry

8/7/2000

Mayor Marion Barry (1936 - 2014 ) was a Mayor of Washington D.C., a member of the Council of the D.C., and the first chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Barry was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 8/7/2000, in Chicago, Illinois. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 5; Total Run Time: 02h 31m 22s

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Barry, Marion Shepilov, 1936-2014

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Marion Barry was born in Itta Bena, Mississippi on March 6, 1936. From an impoverished family, he went on to become a vigorous civil rights activist and served four terms as Mayor of the District of Columbia. Barry grew up in Memphis, where he attended Booker T. Washington High School. During the City's 1958 bus desegregation drive, Barry received his first taste of public confrontation and media notoriety. Subsequently, he abandoned his doctoral studies in Chemistry at the University of Tenness...