D'Army Bailey (November 29, 1941 - July 12, 2015) is an African-American lawyer, circuit trial judge, civil rights activist, writer and film actor. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, he served as a city council member in Berkeley, California, from 1971-1973.
Bailey is the founder of the National Civil Rights Museum that was opened in 1991 at Memphis's Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in 1968. His 1993 book, Mine Points Has Been Viewed: Dr. Martin Luther King's Final Journey, focused on that period. The second book, Black Radical Education , was published in October 2009 by the LSU Press, remembering Bailey's own history in the civil rights movement. His interest in the issue of civil liberties also led Bailey to the film, where he described a judge in the 1999 film
He has roles in seven other films, including depictions ranging from ministers to rushing pool players. Bailey received a law degree from Yale Law School in 1967. He received a Doctor of Law honors degree from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts in 2010. As a lawyer, he trained for 16 years in Memphis before being elected a judge at the Court of Tennessee's Thirtieth Circuit Judicial District in 1990. He led a nationally recognized four-month trial in 1999 in which three major tobacco companies were freed from mistakes in contributing to the death of smokers. He was twice nominated for duty at the Tennessee Supreme Court.
In September 2009, Bailey retired from the bench and became a member of Wilkes & McHugh, PA, a national civil litigation law firm, was founded in 1985 by Jim Wilkes and Tim McHugh. In 2014, he was re-elected as judge and returned to office on September 1, 2014. Bailey teaches at law school, including Harvard, Loyola in California, Washington and Lee, University of Washington at St. Louis. Louis, and University of Notre Dame. He published legal articles at law schools at Harvard University, Toledo University, Washington and Lee, and Howard University. Bailey has served on the executive committee of the Tennessee Judicial Conference.
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Initial years
Bailey was born in South Memphis and grew up near Mississippi Boulevard. He attended the T. Washington Launcher School separated from 1955-59, when Tennessee rejected the desegregation of his schools, as did many other southern states. Bailey attended the country's largest black university, Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
As president of a new class of school, and for the next two years, Bailey was drawn into the struggle against segregation. He joined actions such as sitting at the Greyhound bus station, taking precautions against discriminatory hiring practices in the Baton Rouge business, and leading the parade from the University of Southern campus to the city center to support fellow students who were jailed for demonstrating. Bailey led a boycott of the class later, resulting in his expulsion. News of Bailey's dismissal spread through the civil rights community to Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where sympathetic students have established scholarships for civil rights activists. Students collect $ 2,400 through community appeals, cake sales, and car washes to bring Bailey to Clark and continue his education.
At Clark, he helps organize and become director of the Worcester Student Movement. He invited and hosted Malcolm X as guest speaker at Clark, worked briefly with Abbie Hoffman in the left movement of the Worcester movement, and interacted with civil rights and student activist icons such as James Meredith, John Lewis, Tom Hayden and Allard Lowenstein. The Worcester Student Movement actively teaches students from low-income towns in the city. It also fitted a downtown convenience store for not hiring blacks as a scribe, and organizing demonstrations against city manufacturing companies. Bailey began to understand the power of the law in advancing change as he helped file legal complaints with the federal government to stop discrimination in the city.
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Political engagement, public service
With his newly minted degree, Bailey works in New York as national director of the Civil Rights Law Student Research Council, recruiting law students for civil rights law work in the South. Later, he moved to San Francisco, California to practice law. He was elected to the Berkeley City Council, where he served from 1971-73. In the political bustle of Berkeley, he encouraged efforts to open new job opportunities and to expand the housing, recreation and childcare programs for city dwellers next to the University of California campus. Eventually, he became entangled in the division, the politics that dominated Berkeley city government at the time, and he was recalled from the council in 1973.
Memphis
In 1974 he returned to Memphis, where he opened legal practice with his brother, Walter Lee Bailey Jr. In 1982 Bailey became part of a group of lawyers and activists who raised $ 144,000 to buy Lorraine Motel, the site of King's assassination. It has been confiscated and sold at auction at the Shelby County Courthouse ladder.
A year later, Bailey made an unsuccessful run for the mayor of Memphis. He became more involved in working with others to preserve the motel and set up a civil rights museum there, arranging a foundation to raise money for this purpose. He served as President of the Board from 1983 until the Museum opened in 1991. After lobbying for public and private funding for the museum, Bailey resigned from the board of foundations within a few months after the opening of the facility. Bailey said he felt his fellow board members had lost the vision of the museum's central mission, which he felt was to inspire advances in civil rights. At that time he was elected as a mobile court judge. He said he envisions a museum that serves as a catalyst for activities aimed at what he says will "carry on the unfinished business of the civil rights movement".
The museum exhibits tracing the story of the African-American civil rights struggle from the arrival of the first Africans in American colonies in 1619 through the killing of the King in 1968. The 2001 expansion acquired new buildings for the museum, including Bessie Brewer's boardinghouse near 418 South Main Street, where the shot that killed Dr King was allegedly fired. In 2014, the main motel building reopens after major renovations that enhance the exhibit, adding many interactive elements, and building systems.
Legal career
From 1976 to 1983, he worked part-time for the Shelby County, Tennessee state attorney's office, representing the defendants in dozens of cases. During this period he also wrote a weekly opinion column for the Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis. He hosted a local television program, Forum Memphis, and has emerged as a legal and political analyst for Court TV. Before he was first elected as a judge in 1990, he has been practicing law for 16 years in Memphis. Legal practices generally represent clients in criminal and civil cases. Much of his work is in private injury law. Bailey served three terms as president of the Bar Association's national association in Memphis. He was elected to three judicial requirements and twice nominated for duty in the Tennessee Supreme Court.
After 19 years as a circuit court judge in Judicial District Thirtyeth Tennessee, Bailey resigned on September 15, 2009 to continue his career as a civil court attorney. He focuses on medical malpractice, home care responsibilities, and catastrophic injuries. Bailey joins with Wilkes & amp; McHugh, P.A., to take part in a major case with a company recognized as a pioneer in harassment litigation in nursing homes.
Movie careers
A member of the Screen Actors Guild, Bailey has worked in movies for three decades, including with directors like Oliver Stone, Milo? Forman, Michael Hausman, and Jim Jarmusch. He describes acting as "hard work, but that's something different for me." In The People vs Larry Flynt , Bailey acts as a judge in a film that includes a cameo by political consultant and scholar James Carville.
Bailey appeared in Cigarette Girls (2009), set in 2035, a future where cigarette smokers have been ostracized into a ghetto called "smoking section" and a pack of cigarettes costing more than $ 60. In < i> Deadline (2012), he acts as a judge.
Personal life/death
Bailey married former Adrienne Marie Leslie; the couple had two sons, Justin and Merritt. Bailey died on July 12, 2015 due to cancer at Methodist Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.
Partial filmography
- Mystery Train (1989) - Pool Player 3 (segment "Lost In Space")
- People vs Larry Flynt (1996) - Judge Thomas Alva Mantke
- How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998) - Minister
- Woman's Story (2000) - Adam Freeman
- Forty Blue Color (2005) - Human (unidentified)
- Street Life (2007) (Video) - Agent Mike Stone
- Nothing But Truth (2008) - Supreme Court Judge
- Cigarette Girl (2009) - Store Owner
- Deadline (2012) - Judge Williams (final film role)
References
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