The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009
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Apr 26, 2024 · Marion Barry (born March 6, 1936, Itta Bena, Mississippi, U.S.—died November 23, 2014, Washington, D.C.) 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 master’s degree from Fisk University (1960).
Nov 23, 2014 · WASHINGTON (AP) — A controversial and tireless advocate for the U.S. capital who helped uplift the city's majority black population, Marion Barry was the ultimate Washington, D.C., politician, though his arrest for drug use in the midst of a crack cocaine epidemic came to overshadow his accomplishments.
Nov 23, 2014 · Barry, 78, died Sunday at the United Medical Center after having been released from a hospital a day earlier. Barry died naturally of heart problems caused by high blood pressure, and his kidney disease was a contributing factor, the D.C. medical examiner said. Barry had a kidney transplant several years ago.
Nov 23, 2014 · Marion Barry, the fiery Washington, D.C., politician who was famously re-elected after going to jail for crack cocaine possession, has died after months of battling health issues. He was 78.
Nov 23, 2014 · Marion Barry passed away on Sunday, just a few hours after he was released from the hospital. Marion Barry, an icon of D.C. politics good and bad for more than 40 years, has died at age 78.
Nov 24, 2014 · Nov. 23, 2014. WASHINGTON — Marion S. Barry Jr., a sharecropper’s son and civil rights pioneer who became a flamboyant and polarizing mayor of Washington, went to prison on a cocaine charge ...
Nov 23, 2014 · WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Marion Barry, the scandal-plagued former mayor of Washington, D.C., who was jailed for smoking crack cocaine before making a surprising return to office, died early on ...
