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Barry, Marion, 1936-2014

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Personal name headingBarry, Marion, 1936-2014
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LocatedWashington (D.C.)
Birth date1936-03-06
Death date2014-11-23
Place of birthItta Bena (Miss.)
Place of deathWashington (D.C.)
AffiliationPride, Inc.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupationCity council members
Mayors
City council members
Mayors
City council members
Civil rights workers
Found inHis A conversation with Mayor Marion Barry, c1979: t.p. (Marion Barry) p. 1 (Mayor of Washington, D.C., b. 3/6/36)
NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center for His Interview, 1967 Oct. 3 (Barry, Marion, 1936-; First Chairman, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Assistant Director, Pride, Inc.)
New York times (online), viewed Nov. 24, 2014 (in obituary published Nov. 23: Marion S. Barry Jr.; b. Mar. 6, 1936, Itta Bena, Miss.; his middle initial, S., originally stood for nothing, but in the late 1950s he adopted the middle name Shepilov, after Dmitri T. Shepilov, a purged member of the Soviet Communist Party; moved to Washington, June 1965; d. early Sunday [Nov. 23, 2014], Washington, aged 78; sharecropper's son and civil rights pioneer who became a flamboyant and polarizing mayor of Washington, went to prison on a cocaine charge, and then recaptured City Hall in one of the most improbable comebacks in the history of American politics)
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