Marion Barry and the Bus Boycott That Launched His Career in D.C.

Marion Barry wasn't always Washington, D.C.'s "Mayor For Life." When he arrived in Washington in 1965, he was a chemistry teacher-turned-civil rights activist with SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Less than a year later, he was leading a bus boycott that challenged inequities in transportation — and kick-started a political career which would last decades.