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D'Army Bailey
American judge and actor
D'Army Bailey | |
|---|---|
| Born | ( 1941-11-29)November 29, 1941 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Died | July 12, 2015(2015-07-12) (aged 73) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Education | Clark University Yale Law School 1967 |
| Occupation(s) | lawyer, judge, activist, author, actor |
D'Army Bailey (November 29, 1941 – July 12, 2015) was an American lawyer, circuit court judge, civil rights activist, author, and film actor.
Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, he served as a city councilman in Berkeley, California, from 1971 to 1973.
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Bailey was the founder of the National Civil Rights Museum which opened in 1991 at Memphis’s Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was slain in 1968. His 1993 book, Mine Eyes Have Seen: Dr. Martin Luther King’s Final Journey, focused on that period.
A second book, The Education of a Black Radical, published in October 2009 by LSU Press, recalls Bailey's own history in the civil rights movement. His i