Marion Shepilov Barry (born Marion Barry Jr.; March 6, 1936 – November 23, 2014) [1] was an American politician who served as mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991 and 1995 to …

Dec 22, 2025 · Marion Barry was an American civil rights activist and politician who served four terms as mayor of Washington, D.C. Barry received a bachelor’s degree from LeMoyne College (1958) and a …

Mayor Marion Barry was a transformational figure in the history of Washington D.C. During his four decades of service, he introduced new opportunities for prosperity to residents who had historically …

Aug 7, 2000 · 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 …

Nov 23, 2014 · Marion Barry Jr., the Mississippi sharecropper’s son and civil rights activist who served three terms as mayor of the District of Columbia, survived a drug arrest and jail sentence, and then ...

It’s a seemingly impossible story: Marion Barry Jr., the son of Mississippi sharecroppers, later a civil rights and Black Power activist, becomes a four-term mayor of the nation’s capital.

Born on March 6, 1936, in Itta Bena, Mississippi, Barry excelled academically and became involved in the civil rights movement as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

Mar 6, 2025 · WASHINGTON (7News) — Washington, D.C., is marking what would have been former Mayor Marion Barry’s 89th birthday.

- Marion Barry in his autobiography, Mayor For Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry, Jr., published in 2014

Marion Barry, SNCC’s first Chairman, died November 23, 2014 in Washington, DC, age 78. In April 1960 he attended SNCC’s founding conference in Raleigh, NC, representing the Nashville Student …