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Marion Barry was from Itta Bena, Mississippi, where he became an Eagle Scout; later he pursued a doctorate degree in chemistry from the University of Tennessee, after graduating LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, TN, with a Masters Degree from Fisk University, in Nashville, TN. He was also the first president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In short, he was nobody's fool or buffoon!