Marion Barry's son dies of an overdose

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30. Marion Barry (the father who was mayor of DC) majored in chemistry.

He took the hard courses:

Master's degree, Nashville Student Movement, SNCC

Barry earned an M.S. in organic chemistry from Fisk University in 1960.
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Doctoral studies

Barry began doctoral studies at the University of Kansas but soon quit the program. He contemplated law school to help with his activism, but decided against it because the delayed admission would mean that he would have to take a year off from school. Had he taken a year off, there was a chance of his being drafted into the military, and he did not want to be drafted.

He decided to go to the University of Tennessee where he was awarded a graduate fellowship. In addition, while southern, the University of Tennessee was an integrated educational institution, a new experience for him. He began doctoral chemistry studies at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, the only African American in the program. He learned that he was prohibited from tutoring white children, and his wife Blantie Evans was not allowed to work at the white school. He quit the program in favor of his new duties at SNCC.