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Worked with marion in the movement is much too long to call, my friends. But among them are and were john lewis, frank smith, bob ruby ray robinson, diana nash, james gorman almost carmichael, james forman, stokley carmichael, ivanhoe, donaldson richardson, lafayette and the reverend Jesse Jackson who will deliver the eulogy here today. All of us knew marion barry when he was being formed as a man by the Civil Rights Movement. Years later, here in washington when marion and i had different roles, i used to tease him on the dance floor about bringing those cotton chopping moves to the big city as marion did what he called dancing. He laughed, knowing that this was my way as a d. C. Girl of from soup south of saying to my old friend from the southern movement, you have come a long way from picking cotton in mississippi to running the missions capital Nations Capital go. [applause] but those cotton picking roots served marion barry, jr. , well. He challenged poverty by working himself out
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