| LC control no. | n 79133535 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Barry, Marion, 1936-2014 |
| Located | Washington (D.C.) |
| Birth date | 1936-03-06 |
| Death date | 2014-11-23 |
| Place of birth | Itta Bena (Miss.) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Affiliation | Pride, Inc. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) Democratic Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | City council members Mayors City council members Mayors City council members Civil rights workers |
| Found in | His 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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