Here’s a handy timeline of his earlier DC years 1965-1990:
1965
Marion Barry comes to Washington as a fund-raiser for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He had joined SNCC the year before, after quitting school at the University of Tennessee, where he was working toward a doctorate in chemistry.
1966
Barry leads a boycott of downtown businesses. He is rated fifth, after four longtime Washingtonians, in a poll asking who had done the most for blacks in the area.
SUMMER 1967
Pride Inc., an inner-city self-help organization, is founded by Barry and Mary Treadwell, his wife from 1972 to 1977.
1971
Barry is elected president of the D.C. Board of Education.
1974
He is elected to the D.C. Council, getting the second-highest vote total in the race.
MARCH 1977
Barry is shot by Hanafi Muslims during siege of Islamic Center, B’nai B’rith offices and District Building.
FEB. 17, 1978
He marries Effi Cowell, a health inspector for the D.C. Department of Environmental Services.
NOVEMBER 1978
Barry elected mayor.
SPRING 1981
His administration overcomes financial crisis that was brought to light in first audit of the city.
DEC. 22, 1981
Barry attends a Christmas party at “This Is It,” a downtown bar. There are inconclusive allegations that Barry either had used cocaine at the party or was present while others used the drug.
SUMMER 1982
Barry’s nine-week D.C. Summer Youth Employment Program provides jobs for at least 16,000 youngsters.
NOVEMBER 1982
Barry is reelected mayor with 80 percent of the vote.
OCTOBER 1984
After receiving the highest creditworthiness rating for short-term borrowing from Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s, the District enters the bond market, giving the city the ability to raise funds independently of federal government for the first time.
JUNE 1984
Barry’s friend, Karen K. Johnson, pleads guilty to drug conspiracy charges. Later, she is cited for contempt of court for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigating allegations that Barry had used cocaine.
JULY 18, 1984
Barry places the name of Jesse L. Jackson in nomination for president at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco.
LATE 1984
Barry hands over to U.S. Attorney Joseph E. diGenova three canceled checks that incriminate Ivanhoe Donaldson, the former deputy mayor, in the misuse of city funds. Donaldson pleads guilty in 1985 to stealing $190,000 from the city. Barry is not implicated.
NOVEMBER 1986
Barry is reelected mayor with 61 percent of the vote.
JAN. 15, 1987
Former deputy mayor for finance Alphonse G. Hill is indicted on 11 counts of extortion, income tax evasion and defrauding District government. He later pleads guilty.
MARCH 1987
Barry is reported to visit 23-year-old model Grace T. Shell at her Capitol Hill apartment. Shell denies that she had asked the mayor to drop by to meet her 3-year-old son.
MAY 22, 1987
The FBI finds financial records in the home of Karen Johnson suggesting she was paid for her silence before the grand jury by friends of the mayor. She tells investigators she had been paid $25,000.
NOV. 20, 1987
Barry’s staff creates uproar over hiring of Californian Sallie Melendez, who began work Oct. 1 at a $63,185 annual salary but has no job duties for two months.
THANKSGIVING 1987
The Washington Post reports that Barry met Bettye L. Smith in the Bahamas. The mayor explains that he has often visited her at her Capitol Hill home, but says the relationship is not romantic, that she is a “family associate” known to his son as Aunt Bettye.
MARCH 8, 1988
Barry arrives in the Virgin Islands for a meeting with island officials. He stays three days at a beachfront hotel along with six D.C. employees. The island government later refuses to pay $2,000 of expenses submitted by one employee, who did not go to the island to work.
DEC. 22, 1988
Two D.C. police detectives, investigating drug allegations involving Barry acquaintance Charles Lewis at the Ramada Inn here, leave the hotel after discovering that Barry is in Lewis’s room.
MARCH-APRIL 1989
Lewis is arrested and convicted in the Virgin Islands on two counts each of cocaine possession with intent to distribute and cocaine distribution.
AUG. 30, 1989
Lewis tells federal investigators that he smoked crack cocaine with Barry in December 1988. Barry denies ever seeing or using drugs while he was with Lewis.
SEPT. 15, 1989
Dixie Lee Hedrington, a legal secretary from the Virgin Islands, testifies before a grand jury that she saw Barry in a hotel room with several women and what she believed to be cocaine during his visits in March 1988. Barry reacts to allegations by saying federal authorities are conspiring with The Washington Post “to get me out of office.” He cites as evidence a photo of Hedrington with the FBI. “How would they know what time she was coming to National Airport?”
JAN. 18, 1990
The mayor is arrested at the Vista International Hotel in downtown Washington on a misdemeanor charge of possessing crack cocaine.
Thanks. Here's more on the SNCC...
"While serving in the U.S. Army 1963-1968, he [Illinois congressman, Bobby Rush] became involved with the radical Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1968 he went AWOL and became co-founder of the gangster-ridden Illinois branch of the Black Panther Party (BPP), noted for intimidating local business people into making "donations" to Panther "charities." One BPP member recruited by Rush was Fred Hampton, who was killed in a December 4, 1969 police raid on Panther headquarters."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1198
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"Far from being spontaneous affairs, testimony and evidence presented in various government hearings showed that time after time these conflagrations had been lit by organizers of the Moscow-directed Communist Party USA, the Beijing-directed Progressive Labor Party, and the Trotskyite communist, Havana-aligned Socialist Workers Party, usually operating through front groups such as the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The leaders of these “student” groups were not students at all, but professional revolutionaries in their 30s, 40s, and 50s. Many had attended courses in riot-making and revolution in Communist China, Russia, North Vietnam, Cuba, and Czechoslovakia. For them, the “nonviolent” label was purely a cover.
Sol Stern was one of three dozen radicals who joined SDS leader Tom Hayden on a trip to the Czech city of Bratislava to meet with communist leaders after the deadly Newark riots. Stern later wrote that the other SDS leaders understood the Newark riots and the violent Columbia University demonstrations were part of “Hayden’s grand project to ‘bring the [Vietnam] war back home.’ The whole point was to provoke a confrontation” with the police."
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/election/259-recreating-riots
* Democratic Member of Congress
* Member of the radical Progressive Caucus
* In 1968, went AWOL from the U.S. Army
* Co-founder of the Illinois branch of the Black Panther Party
* In 1969, served six months in jail for an illegal weapons conviction
* Advocates reparations for African Americans
"Bobby Rush has described his involvement with the Black Panthers as part of his maturation process, as a youthful indiscretion that he abandoned immediately after Hampton's death. He described his role mostly as running the Black Panther Party's Free Breakfast for Children program.
But Bobby Rush served six months in jail for a 1969 illegal weapons conviction and, even after his release, in 1971 his comrades were still describing him as the 'Deputy Minister of Defense' for the Black Panther Party in Illinois. In 1992 the socialist magazine In These Times praised fledgling congressional candidate Rush, writing that he 'has continued to support progressive policies and has never disavowed his Panther past...."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1198
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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES
"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo.
Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.
The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."
To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."
Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969):
http://web.archive.org/web/20041230150623/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html