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Richard Prideaux, a 1960s force for racial equality on Staten Island, dies. He was 94.
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
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“We shall overcome. We shall overcome. We shall overcome some day …”
Only 7 years old that afternoon in 1963, Barbara Prideaux was one of the youngest among those gathered at the corner of Castleton and Richmond avenues. But she was old enough to know it was wrong for the shop owner to prohibit a Black woman from trying on a dress.
Richard with daughter Barbara in 2019
Barbara often joined the protests organized by her father, Richard Prideaux, a gentle giant of a man who was one of Staten Island’s first, and few, Black civil rights leaders at a time when it mattered most. His personal experiences of discrimination and segregation were the catalysts for a lifetime of peaceful activism.