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Marion Barry
Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.
(March 6, 1936 – November 23, 2014) was an American politician who served as the second
Mayor of the District of Columbia
from 1979 to 1991, and again as the fourth mayor from 1995 to 1999. A
Democrat
, Barry had served three tenures on the
Council of the District of Columbia
, representing as an at-large member from 1975 to 1979 and in Ward 8 from 1993 to 1995, and again from 2005 to 2014. In the 1960s he was involved in the
African-American Civil Rights Movement
, first as a member of the
Nashville Student Movement sit-ins
and then serving as the first chairman of the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC).
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