Since I first started this column, more than twenty years ago, I have dedicated the column closest to the third Monday of January to the visionary that had a dream.
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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.
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