The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Marion Barry.
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication | Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016] |
| Description | 1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 31 min., 22 sec.)) : sound, color |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2000.005 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Barry, Marion, 1936-2014, interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Bieschke, Paul, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title | History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Marion Barry |
| Portion of title | Honorable Marion Barry |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Credits | Videographer, Paul Bieschke. |
| Performer | Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2000 August 7. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2000.005 HistoryMakers |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |