A native of Memphis, Bailey was expelled from Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., in the early 1960s as a result of his participation in demonstrations against segregation. Finishing his undergraduate studies at Clark University in Massachusetts, Bailey went on to graduate from Yale Law School in 1967. Bailey is the former national director of the Law Students Civil Rights Research Council and served on the Berkeley City Council in the 1970s in California. He returned to Memphis in 1974, where he led the fight to preserve the Lorraine Motel -- where King was assassinated in 1968 -- and establish the National Civil Rights Museum there.
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