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Honorable D'Army Bailey, Co-Founder of the National Civil Rights Museum
A native of Memphis, Bailey enrolled in college at Southern University, where he joined in protest demonstrations against segregation. He was expelled because of his involvement and finished his undergraduate studies at Clark University, MA. Upon completing his juris doctor at Yale University in 1967, Bailey worked in New York as National Director of the Law Students Civil Rights Research Council. He moved to the Bay Area and was elected to the Berkeley City Council in 1971. He returned to Memphis in 1974 and began a law practice until his election to the Circuit Court of Tennessee at Memphis, where he still serves. Bailey is a founder of the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.



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