Photo of Marion Barry wearing Free DC button, 1966

ID: 4390 ~ Source: Reprinted with permission of the DC Public Library, Star Collection, © Washington Post

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Marion Barry and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC): 107 Rhode Island Avenue NW

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Marion Barry and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC): 107 Rhode Island Avenue NW

Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Marion Barry and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC): 107 Rhode Island Avenue NW

By DC Historic Preservation Office

"We want to free DC from our enemies, the people who make it impossible for us to do anything about lousy schools, brutal cops, slumlords, welfare investigators who go on midnight raids, employers who…