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The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Marion Barry.
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Marion Barry.
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 31 min., 22 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Mayor Marion Barry was born on March 6, 1936 in Itta Bena, Mississippi. Barry grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, where he helped desegregate the buses in 1958. Barry subsequently abandoned his doctoral studies in chemistry at the University of Tennessee to join the Civil Rights Movement full-time. Barry was elected the first chairman of SNCC and came to Washington, D.C. in 1965 to open a local chapter. He never left and became a major player in the politics of the nation's capital, serving first on the city's first elected school board and then on the first elected city council. In 1978, Barry became Washington, D.C.'s second elected mayor. He held that office for twelve years until he was forced to step down. In 1992, he won back a council seat and then was elected mayor again in 1994. Barry passed away on November 23, 2014 at the age of seventy-eight.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Marion Barry
- The Honorable Marion Barry
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Paul Bieschke.
- OCLC
- 994208912
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Marion Barry.
- Publisher
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States. naf
- Playing Time
- 023122
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- computer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
- video file
- Performer
- Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
- Credits
- Videographer, Paul Bieschke.
- Event
- Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2000 August 7.
- Source of description
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Mayor.
- Added Author
- Barry, Marion, 1936-2014, interviewee.Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.Bieschke, Paul, director of photography.HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.