Nan Bailey: ‘True to her revolutionary convictions every day of her life’

By Matilde Zimmermann
January 3, 2019

Top, Nan Bailey, SWP’s 1974 candidate for Washington, D.C., mayor, debates Marion Barry, left, who later became city’s first Black mayor. Left, September 1988 rally to drop frame-up rape charges against Mark Curtis, seated at left. Jack Barnes at podium. Bailey, second from right, joined defense of Curtis that won worldwide support.

Top, Nan Bailey, SWP’s 1974 candidate for Washington, D.C., mayor, debates Marion Barry, left, who later became city’s first Black mayor. Left, September 1988 rally to drop frame-up rape charges against Mark Curtis, seated at left. Jack Barnes at podium. Bailey, second from right, joined defense of Curtis that won worldwide support.