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Gloria Richardson, Uncompromising Civil Rights Advocate, Dies at 99 Her efforts to refocus the movement on economic justice made her a bridge between more moderate leaders and Black Power activism. Gloria Richardson in 2018 holding a photo of herself from a 1963 rally in Cambridge, Md. A Howard-trained sociologist, she found that what Black people most wanted was better housing, jobs and health care.Credit.Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times July 18, 2021 Gloria Richardson, whose work as a civil rights leader on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the early 1960s served as a bridge between the nonviolent activism of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the more radical, confrontational tactics and agendas of the Black Power movement that followed in the second half of the decade, died on July 15 at her home in Manhattan. She was 99.

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