Mine Eyes Have Seen: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Journey - Hardcover

Bailey, D'Army

9781881096023: Mine Eyes Have Seen: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Journey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1881096025 ISBN 13: 9781881096023

Publisher: Towery Pub, 1993

Currently a Circuit Court Judge in Tennessee's 30th Judicial District, D'Army Bailey has enjoyed a long and diverse career as an activist, a politician, an attorney, a writer and columnist, a public servant, and now, a jurist. A graduate of Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts (1964) and the Yale Law School (1967), Judge Bailey became active in the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960s and served briefly as a member of the Berkeley California City Council before returning, in 1974, to his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee to practice law.

In 1983, Judge Bailey organized the Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation, Inc. in hopes of raising enough money to preserve the Lorraine Motel-where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated-as a museum. After a long and tedious process of raising the requisite funding, the Lorraine building, which had been left to decay by the city, was transformed into a museum that traces the entire United States Civil Rights Movement. The museum was officially dedicated in July 1991.

Today, Judge Bailey resides in Memphis with his wife, Adrienne, and two sons, Justin and Merritt.

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D'Army Bailey has enjoyed a long and diverse career as an activist, a politician, an attorney, a writer and columnist, a public servant, and now, a jurist.

Judge Bailey joined hundreds of other students in protest demonstrations against segregation in Baton Rouge, while attending Southern University. He was consequently expelled because of his involvement and finished undergraduate studies at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.

After graduating from Yale Law School in 1967, Judge Bailey worked in New York as National Director of the Law Students Civil Rights Research Council.

He practiced law in San Francisco and served as a radical member of the Berkeley, California City Council from 1971 until he was recalled by a conservative coalition in a special election in 1973. However, he returned to Memphis in 1974, began a law practice with his brother, and was elected and reelected to the position of Tennessee Circuit Court Judge in 1990 and 1998 respectively.

The cause for civil rights has been a passion for him. He is the founder of the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel, the site where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was fatally wounded. Hillary Clinton said about his work building the Museum: "D'Army Bailey gives us as clear a path through the civil rights revolution as anyone could have."

Today Judge Bailey resides in Memphis with his wife Adrienne, and two sons, Justin, and Merritt.

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