Gloria Richardson, civil rights pioneer, dies at 99
By Brian Witte, Associated Press
Published July 18, 2021
In this July 21, 1963, file photo, Gloria Richardson, head of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, pushes a National Guardsman’s bayonet aside as she moves among a crowd of African Americans to convince them to disperse in Cambridge, Md. Richardson, an influential yet largely unsung civil rights pioneer whose determination not to back down while protesting racial inequality was captured in a photograph as she pushed away the bayonet of a National Guardsman, died Thursday, July 15, 2021, in New York, according to Joe Orange, her son in law. She was 99. (AP Photo/File)
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According to her son-in-law, Richardson died Thursday in New York.
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FILE - May 11, 1964 - Stanley Branche, left, Gloria Richardson center and Brig. Gen. George Gelson, right, in Cambridge, Md. Author: BRIAN WITTE Associated Press Published: 6:49 PM EDT July 16, 2021 Updated: 6:49 PM EDT July 16, 2021
ANNAPOLIS, Md. Gloria Richardson, an influential yet largely unsung civil rights pioneer whose determination not to back down while protesting racial inequality was captured in a photograph as she pushed away the bayonet of a National Guardsman, has died. She was 99.
Joe Orange, her son-in-law, said Richardson died Thursday in New York.