Gloria Richardson

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Gloria Richardson
Born
Gloria St. Clair Hayes

(1922-05-06)May 6, 1922
Baltimore, Maryland
DiedJuly 15, 2021(2021-07-15) (aged 99)
Known forCambridge movement during 1960s Civil Rights Movement

Gloria Richardson Dandridge (born Gloria St. Clair Hayes; May 6, 1922 – July 15, 2021) was an American civil rights activist best known as the leader of the Cambridge movement, a civil rights struggle in the early 1960s in Cambridge, Maryland, on the Eastern Shore. Recognized as a major figure in the Civil Rights Movement at the time, she was one of the signatories to "The Treaty of Cambridge", signed in July 1963 with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and state and local officials after the riot the month before.

Richardson was honored with five other women leaders by being seated on the stage at the August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, but none were allowed to speak to the crowd. Later Richardson married again and moved to New York City, where she worked locally in Harlem on civil rights and economic development.

Early life and education[]

Gloria St. Clair Hayes was born in 1922 to John and Mable (née St. Clair) Hayes in Cambridge, Maryland, the county seat of Dorchester County. Cambridge was not entirely under the reign of Jim Crow's terror. Richardson's mother was part of the affluent St. Clair family, which owned and operated a successful grocery store and funeral home. They had been free people of color since before the Civil War, and also owned extensive rental property. One maternal uncle was a lawyer in the state of Maryland. Her family was also involved in politics. Her maternal grandfather had served on the Cambridge City Council from 1912 to 1946, the first African American to be elected to this office.[1]

From a young age, Richardson had a naturally strong personality, a trait nurtured by her parents and maternal grandparents.[2] Richardson developed a strong sense of community as she started to form her own viewpoints on different human rights issues such as racism. Richardson attended a neighbourhood public school and, as a child, she was encouraged to be vocal and seize opportunities to speak in front of large groups of people such as at Sunday school programs.[2] As Richardson grew up, she rejected what her parents considered to be respectable behavior for girls from well-to-do families.[2] This early-on independence and persistent mentality played a large part in Richardson's future work and the significant role she played in them. Despite some of the beliefs that her parents held, they always supported Richardson’s right to express her own beliefs and opinions; this proved to be a critical factor in Gloria’s growth as she developed her identity. She was aware of the privileges she held growing up, knowing that her college degree, her family’s privileges, and their navigation of the color line in Cambridge did not provide her or her family with true protection.[3] Her grandparents always taught her to value people for their actions and not for their socioeconomic status. [2]

Although Richardson grew up in a relatively affluent family, her family still experienced many acts of injustice due to the American system. An incident that was significant to Richardson’s journey towards activism was her father’s death. Richardson’s father died of a heart attack due to the lack of medical care for Black people near their homes.[3] This was one of the main events that allowed Richardson to realize that racism was a matter of life and death.

Black males had been able to vote in Maryland since emancipation after the American Civil War. (Women were added when the 19th constitutional amendment became effective in 1920.) African Americans in the city of Baltimore were generally segregated into housing in one of five wards, the .[citation needed] Within that ward, blacks had built up substantial religious and business communities. They still lived under Maryland state Jim Crow laws and customs in the city at large.

Hayes earned a B.A. in sociology in 1942 from Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, DC. Here, she became involved in her first act of social activism as a student when she and other students protested the Peoples Drug store near campus because the store refused to hire Black workers.[4] In college, she continued to participate in acts of civil disobedience by picketing a segregated Woolworths store in the capital, where blacks were not allowed to have lunch at the in-store counter. People were surprised by her leadership and her status as a woman from an elite African-American family. They were used to dealing with poor black women who were less outspoken.[5] Through her experience here, she became aware that the 50 years of Black participation in the legal system was generally ineffective as Cambridge was still one of the most segregated towns in America with one of the highest Black unemployment rates.[6]

Return to Cambridge[]

When Richardson returned to Cambridge after college, she married Harry Richardson and began to explore civil rights. The city government hired black people as social workers only to serve black clients in the all-black ward. After another woman was chosen over Richardson for a social worker position in the "black" ward, she decided to focus on her family and civic work. In an interview with Robert Penn Warren for his book Who Speaks for the Negro? (1965), Richardson said that in Cambridge, blacks were "the last hired and first fired,"[7] a phrase applicable to minorities in other places as well.

Later on, she was divorced from Harry Richardson and was working at a pharmacy and grocery store owned by her family in a predominantly Black community as a mother of two daughters. It was her motherhood, Richardson said, that sparked her activist role there.

Richardson held a formal office in the (CNCC) and at one point she was the only Black woman head of a local civil rights agency.[6] She also served as an adult adviser to the CNCC. She became co-chair of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee (CNAC) and was one of the first individuals to identify needs beyond desegregation as she began to look toward attaining economic justice in housing, education, job opportunity, and health care.[6] While co-chairing the CNAC, Richardson gained experience and insight into who to trust in the process of negotiating the expansion of the rights of the Black community in Cambridge.

During her early activism, Richardson was arrested three times. When arrested for the first time, Judge W. Laird described her tactics as "a disgrace to her family's name" to shame her into silence.[6] However, Richardson only continued to fight back harder and she was known for her "verbal attacks" as she described national leaders as presenting "meaningless smiles" due to their lack of substantial change.[6]

Cambridge movement[]

Main article: Cambridge movement (civil rights)

In December 1961, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent Reginald Robinson and William Hansen to Cambridge to organize civil rights actions. SNCC had been contacted by activists in the city. The two young men started sit-ins in February to protest segregated facilities. They targeted segregated movie theaters, bowling alleys, and restaurants. Donna Richardson, Gloria's daughter, was among fellow students who supported the demonstrators. Richardson and Yolanda Sinclair, another mother of a protester, were among parents who wanted to show their support for these actions.[8]

In 1961, a Freedom Ride came to Cambridge. The black city council member had attempted to discourage the campaign by insisting that the city was already desegregated. At first Richardson rarely participated in civil disobedience, because she could not accept the original SNCC nonviolence rules.

By 1962, the Civil Rights movement was picking up steam around the country. An initial movement was led by students where they attempted to desegregate public facilities in Cambridge. The town was composed of around 11,000 people and about one-third were Black. The initial protests were peaceful including picketing and sit-ins. A number of White supremacists attacked demonstrators but police would arrest the protestors. However, these tactics did not yield results until Richardson was chosen to lead the movement and CNAC. [9] 

On January 13, 1962, the city’s Black community held its first civil rights demonstration of the 1960s. Dozens of Black high school students, including Richardson���s daughter Donna, joined a number of young men and women from Baltimore’s (CIG) and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and two members of the SNCC.[2] This was a result of weeks of coordinated planning by Cambridge’s Black youths and was viewed as the beginning of Cambridge’s civil rights movement.[2] Initially, when Richardson wanted to get involved with the protests, her daughter Donna sent Richardson home until Richardson could guarantee that she would demonstrate nonviolently, as the other individuals had been trained to do. It was a commitment Richardson could not make at the time; therefore, she focused on working with the Black community’s secretive and highly efficient intelligence-sharing network, known as the “grapevine”.[2] Richardson provided information to CIG and SNCC about how Cambridge’s political system operated and the opinions of the Black community. Her daughter acted as a spark in Richardson’s activist journey. Through witnessing various demonstrations in support of her daughter’s activism, Richardson struggled to remain silent in the face of counter-protestors that mocked the non-violent Civil Rights groups.[3] Richardson was determined to involve herself in these social justice issues. At the time, she ran her family’s business, but she decided to become a student again. She attended workshops, and special sessions where activists methodically trained themselves to withstand the pure hatred of mobs, which often included slurs and other demeaning actions that aimed to keep protestors from peaceful gathering, a right secured that was supposed to be secured by the Constitution. [3]

The March and April demonstrations resulted in a large caseload for the local court system where Richardson and other defendants were tried together. Richardson was one of more than 50 people who stood trial for charges of disorderly conduct. This became known as and demonstrated how the Cambridge movement disrupted white elites’ racial comfort zones.[2] On the issue of violence, Richardson had the outlook that violence is not necessarily the answer, but she does not condemn violence as she believes it is a residue of frustration.[2] She once said that “revolts seemed to be the only thing that America understands, and the nation’s racial problems made revolts unavoidable”.[2]  

In June 1962, Richardson was asked to help organize the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee (CNAC), the first adult-led affiliate of SNCC. She became its official spokesperson.[10] The organization had initially formed in March of that year. After CNAC canvassed African-American communities in a survey, they expanded the goals to work for economic equality: to improve housing, education, employment, and healthcare. Many blacks struggled with low wages or unemployment.[7]

The Cambridge movement would be one of the first campaigns to focus on economic rights rather than putting the focus solely on civil rights. Richardson would also be one of the first leaders to publicly question nonviolence as a tactic. Due to the change in focus of the movement, protests demanded both economic and social equality as Richardson wanted to target discrimination and inequity in employment, poor wages, inferior schools, health care, and segregated facilities.[9]

Richardson said in a later interview on why she was committed to CNAC's leadership reflecting the community. "The one thing we did was to emphasize that while you should be educated, that education, degrees, college degrees were not essential [here]. If you could articulate the need, if you knew what that need was, if you were aware of the kinds of games that white folk play that was the real thing".[11]

In the summer of 1962, CNAC focused on voter registration and an effort to get out the vote. They wanted to replace state senator Frederick Malkus, who had opposed legislation that would have allowed additional industries into Dorchester County, Maryland. The lack of industrial jobs limited opportunities for the African-American community.

Richardson was focused on determining the priorities of the Black community, reinforced by a lesson she learned from her grandfather which was to learn about the important issues the members of a community care about most. One of the first things she did was conduct a survey of the Black community to help determine priorities. Data was collected door-to-door and analyzed by faculty at Swarthmore College.[9] The survey collected the following statistics as what residents considered to be the most pressing issue:[2]

  • 42% considered it to be jobs
  • 26% considered it to be housing
  • 21% considered it to be improved schools
  • 6% considered it to be open accommodations
  • 5% considered it to be police brutality

Before collecting the data, Richardson expected public accommodations to be their biggest concern because it had been the main focus of the protest; however, after analyzing the results, CNAC began a multipronged campaign to encourage black voter registration, increase employment opportunities for black workers, and end racially segregated education by having black parents apply to transfer their children to white schools.[2]

As militant tactics increased and new demands were made, white resistance also increased. Two 15-year old students, Dwight Cromwell and Dinez White, were arrested for praying outside a segregated facility.[9] Both individuals received indeterminate sentences in a juvenile facility and these sentences resulted in outrage from the Black community. Large marches and protests increased, which were often met by White mobs. This is when the philosophy within the Black community in Cambridge changed from  “nonviolent resistance” to “armed self-defense”.[9] As Herbert St. Clair, a Black businessman said, “We are not going to initiate violence. But if we are attacked, we are not going to turn the other cheek”. [9]

In June 1963 the Cambridge protests had attracted students and other activists from around the country. On June 11, white patrons at Dizzyland had attacked six white and black demonstrators conducting a sit-in there. General Gelston of the National Guard announced that he was changing the rules of martial law: he announced a curfew of 9 P.M. instead of 10, stores were to close at 2 P.M. instead of 9 P.M., firearms were banned, and automobile searches by police and National Guard were authorized.

At 8 P.M. that night 250 African Americans staged a "freedom walk" to the Dorchester County Courthouse. Shortly after the demonstrators stopped to pray, they were attacked and pelted with eggs by crowds of more than 200 white townsfolk. Two carloads of whites drove in and started a gun fight with armed African Americans. State police used tear gas and guns to disperse the mob.

The federal government intervened in an effort to end the violence and protests. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and other Justice Department and housing officials brokered a five-point "Treaty of Cambridge", to include a statement for equal rights, that was signed in July. The Attorney General, representatives of the State Of Maryland, local black leadership-including Richardson, and elected Cambridge officials were all signatories.

On June 13, 1963, another mass civil rights march was held. This time, the Black community in Cambridge came with protection. Armed men were protecting the demonstrators and they set up a perimeter around the Black community.[9] The night after, a fight broke out between the White and Black community and there was an exchange of gunshots. [9]Several people were wounded and some White businesses were set on fire. During this series of protests in 1963 is where the famous photograph of Richardson pushing aside the bayonet and rifle of a National Guardsman emerged from. [4]

As a result of the accumulation of protests and demonstrations, the administration of Gov. Milliard J. Tawes offered a plan of gradual desegregation. However, it was rejected by CNAC and Tawes responded by sending in the National Guard for three weeks.[9] After the withdrawal of the National Guard, CNAC resumed protests.

On July 12, a White mob attacked protestors sitting in at a restaurant. The Black residents fought back, but there was another attack later that night. After those incidents, Governor Tawes sent in the National Guard for nearly two years. This was the longest occupation of any community since the Reconstruction period after the American Civil War. [9]Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy arranged a settlement where if the CNAC agreed to stop protesting, then in return there would be an end to segregation in public accommodations, desegregation of public schools, construction of public housing, and implementation of a jobs program funded by the Federal government.[9] This agreement did not last and ended almost immediately when the Dorchester Business and Citizens Association filed referendum petitions to overturn the agreement. Richardson took a controversial stance on the issue as she announced that the CNAC would not be taking part in the referendum. A significant quote that encaptures Richardson’s view is when she said that “A first-class citizen does not beg for freedom. A first-class citizen does not plead to the white power structure to give him something that the whites have no power to give or take away. Human rights are human rights, not white rights”.[9]

On July 23, the Treaty of Cambridge was signed and it helped local activists secure victories in resources for public housing, the protection of voting rights, and the establishment of a body to investigate Civil Rights violations.[3] During that period of time, national publications wrote stories and reports about why Richardson was ludicrous for opposing a citywide referendum because it supposedly allowed Cambridge citizens to vote on equal access to accommodations and housing. However, Richardson was firm in her belief that her White neighbours should not be deciding on Black rights.[3] Ultimately, she was correct as the referendum was overwhelmingly shot down.

The fight for desegregation also led to victories in union organizations that had failed previously. Richardson claimed that there would often be White members who wanted to educate themselves on the issue and would ask about the civil rights struggle. Many White workers were inspired by the CNAC campaign and recognized the power and leadership it represented. This helped to achieve a certain level of Black and White unity as White workers recognized that the Black struggle for freedom represented new power that would also benefit them.[9] This resulted in an improvement in involvement. Previously, although the Cambridge local consisted of both Black and White members, they were unable to meet due to segregation. Now, the Black trade unionists, with support from White workers, asked CNAC to attend meetings. In fact, there was an incident where the White workers openly showed their support. In a large meeting at the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) headquarters in New York, there were people who supported wage discrepancy that were sent to the meeting. [9]When they started to argue, they accused Richardson of being a communist and wanted to remove her from the meeting. However, local white ILGWU members said, “Oh no. If she goes, all of us go,” demonstrating their support for Richardson and the CNAC. [9]

Richardson was selected as an honoree at the March on Washington on August 22, 1963. Before she arrived at the event, she was told that she could not wear jeans to the event. To Richardson and other SNCC members, wearing jeans represented their solidarity with the rural poor, and “it was the default uniform when they boycotted department stores for maintaining segregation”.[3] However, she compromised and wore a jean skirt. When she arrived she realized her seat on the dais was missing. After finding a place to sit on the platform stage, Richardson was allowed to say “Hello,” to the crowd of more than 250,000, before her microphone was cut. [3]

Gloria Richardson played a big role in the Kennedy administration’s decision to work with the CNAC as she initiated a series of negotiations to help Cambridge residents come out from under Jim Crow. By the summer of 1963, she was living her “egalitarian philosophies concerning community organizing and democracy”, and she was willing to risk her family’s standing among the black elite to achieve CNAC’s goals.[2] For these reasons, Cambridge’s black community acknowledged her as its leader, making her one of few women to achieve that position during the entire civil rights movement.[2] Richardson claimed that people working for the Kennedy administration tried to intimidate her into leaving the movement by threatening to reveal embarrassing gossip about her, including intimate details about her divorce and her affair.[2] Richardson sent word to the administration that if the press ran that story, she would indeed resign from CNAC, but she would not go without a fight. In her personal life, she was not afraid of other people’s judgement, including her, at the time, uncommon decision to get a divorce.

In December 1963 Richardson attended a national meeting of SNCC leaders in Atlanta, where they discussed the future direction of the organization. Present were Bob Moses, Charles Sherrod, Frank Smith, John Lewis, , Michael Thelwell, Stokely Carmichael, , Dottie Zellner, , Marion Barry, and Joyce Ladner, as well as staff and volunteers. Ella Baker and Howard Zinn led questioning to help the mostly young leaders work toward their vision for activism. In Atlanta they discussed and planned for an extended voting rights program to be conducted in the South the next year, an election year. [12]

After Cambridge movement[]

On July 14, 1963, Governor Tawes met with Richardson and other leaders where the government offered to integrate schools, seeing that a Black person was “hired in the State Employment Office, make an application for a federal loan for a “Negro housing project”, pass a public accommodations ordinance, and name a biracial commission to work on the other problems that could not be solved immediately by legislation” in exchange for a year-long suspension on civil demonstrations.[6] Even with all of those offers, Richardson rejected the guarantee that they would completely stop demonstrations unless there was a full desegregation of schools and complete fairness in job opportunities. In response to that decision, she said, “We wish to make it unalterably clear that we will determine, and not the political structure of the city, who shall speak for the Negro community”.[6]

Richardson received much criticism during and after the Cambridge movement that contributed to her reputation as a female leader during that period of time. Even though many local and national figures criticized Richardson for not denouncing the violence outright, she continued to stand by her belief in self-defense and did not condemn the violence. Later, Richardson was arrested again and there was one attempt to institutionalize Richardson as mentally incompetent.[6] President John F. Kennedy described Cambridge as a town that had “lost sight of what demonstrations are about” because of the violence that had occurred.[6] However, Richardson had a different point of view as she believed that these people who had been provoked and had endured generations of segregation were not going to be controlled unless change was achieved in Cambridge. [6]

Well-known figures including Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis urged Richardson to be “less confrontational and more compromising,” but Richardson refused to comply.[4] Richardson disagreed strongly with King, Kennedy, and many others as there was a misunderstanding that she was an advocate for violence. She believed in nonviolence as a first step in demonstrations but encouraged physical force as self-defense if confronted with threats.[4] She believed that she had no less to offer than those figures and people around her noted that if Richardson was on “your side, you didn’t need anybody else”.[4] Many Black churches distanced themselves from Richardson and the movement and local civil rights activists also avoided associating themselves with her. Some people believed her political approach was too intense and this was when her movement began to falter.[6] Furthermore, Richardson had received criticism as a female leader from most radical Black male activists because they tended to be conservative in terms of gender roles.[6] Her actions were perceived to be inappropriate for a woman and people believed that “it would be most functional” for Richardson to become just “another woman living in a small town”.[6]

This displays the significance of Richardson’s contribution: she helped to reshape the stereotypical role of women. People liked to think of women as ones who were “quietly willing to take a back seat,” but Richardson proved that false and expanded the range of female involvement. [6]She laid the groundwork for African Americans as female politicians and feminists, and people of the LGBTQ community. [6] Richardson’s contributions told society that even women who lived in small towns have a voice as long as someone is willing to listen to them. Richardson believed that smiling made people comfortable and that there was nothing to smile about when discussing the topic of civil rights.

As a result of this movement, federal dollars began to flow into Cambridge facilities including parks, schools, streets, public housing, and other projects.[9] However, discrimination against the Black community continued despite the legal end of segregation.

Later life[]

A month later, Richardson left Cambridge for New York City. She married Frank Dandridge, a photographer she had become acquainted with during the demonstrations, and settled with him there.[13] In New York, Richardson worked for a time at an advertising agency before taking a job with the New York City Department for the Aging, where she helped ensure businesses complied with laws that affected seniors.[4] Richardson also has been advising the (BAF), CNAC’s successor. BAF was established by former CNAC members because they felt that Cambridge’s “white power system was still impeding progress in all areas of Black residents’ lives”.[2] While largely retiring from public life, she worked with Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited and Associated Community Teams.[7] She retired in 2012 at age 90.

In an interview with Gil Noble in 1982, Richardson explained why she had been passionate about helping the student demonstrators in the beginning of the Cambridge movement. She stated that "there was something direct, something real about the way kids waged nonviolent war. This was the first time I saw a vehicle I could work with".[14]

Richardson continued to pay attention and stay engaged in current politics and social justice events. In a 2021 interview with The Washington Post Richardson recounted that she watched as outrage over the murder of George Floyd prompted thousands to take the streets. She was frustrated because she believed that the nation had not made progress since she helped lead a racial injustice uprising in the 1960s.[4] However, she was pleased to see that there had been an improvement in the diversity of backgrounds that supported the movements. During the period of time of the Cambridge movement, protestors who joined Richardson were predominantly Black, but now she saw a change as there was a mix of races marching together. She recalled that they marched until the governor called martial law because they believed that that was how to get attention and prevent protests about the same topics another 100 years from now.[4] She believed that these actions remain necessary in America today where Black citizens continue to face inequities in the “criminal justice system, housing, health care, and other areas compared with their White counterparts”.[4]

Her legacy is less known than many other women in the movement such as Rosa Parks and Dorothy Height. Lopez Matthews Jr., a historian and digital production librarian at Howard University, believes that she is not well-known because “she was a woman who was feisty and who refused to back down. As a society, we tend not to value those traits in women”.[4] However, those traits made Richardson a great leader in the civil rights movement, because she did not back down. In the biography, The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation, the author, Joseph Fitzgerald, believes that Richardson was not in the Civil Rights movement for a career.[4] Instead, she was in it solely for the purpose of advancing Black liberation. He believes this is the reason why Richardson stepped aside when she felt that she could be of no further meaningful use in the movement. Richardson just wanted to spread the message to others to fight for what they believed in, but to stop being so nice.

In 2017, the state of Maryland honored her legacy by dedicating February 11 as “Gloria Richardson Day”.[15] Although Richardson was not able to travel as planned to Cambridge’s historic to be recognized in person, she spoke to the packed church in a live remote broadcast from her apartment. Five months later, a fireside chat was facilitated by Kisha Petticolas, the co-founder of the Eastern Shore Network for Change (ESNC), at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Resort in Cambridge. Richardson was a featured speaker at the Reflection’s banquet, where her remarks “brought 300 guests to their feet in a sustained standing ovation”.[15]

Richardson helped to establish a new image for Black women in the United States. She replaced the image of a long-suffering martyr with the image of a woman as a warrior.[6] When Richardson was asked how she would like to be remembered, she replied: “I guess I would like for them to say I was true to my belief in black people as a race”.[2] Today, there is a mural placed left of center next to Dorchester native and Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman of Gloria boldly demanding justice.

She died in New York on July 15, 2021.[16]

References[]

  1. ^ "Gloria Hayes Richardson: Leader of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee (CNAC)." Westside Gazette.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Fitzgerald, Joseph R., 1965-. The struggle is eternal : Gloria Richardson and black liberation. ISBN 978-0-8131-7874-5. OCLC 1129118967.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Chatelain, Dr Marcia (June 14, 2019). "A Legacy of Perseverance: Gloria Richardson Dandridge". The Riveter. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k "Gloria Richardson pushed aside a bayonet as a '60s civil rights activist. Now 98, she wants the new generation to fight on". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
  5. ^ Millner, Sandra Y. (1996). "Recasting Civil Rights Leadership: Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge Movement". Journal of Black Studies. 26 (6): 668–687. ISSN 0021-9347.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Foeman, Anita K. (1996). "Gloria Richardson: Breaking the Mold". Journal of Black Studies. 26 (5): 604–615. ISSN 0021-9347.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b c Warren.
  8. ^ Women In The Civil Rights Movement
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Gloria Richardson". Washington Area Spark. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
  10. ^ Kisseloff, pp. 54-55.
  11. ^ Women In The Civil Rights Movement
  12. ^ Ransby, pp. 314-317.
  13. ^ Rasmussen.
  14. ^ Gil Noble, "Interview with Gloria Richardson Dandridge," Journal of Black Studies, 1982
  15. ^ Jump up to: a b "Gloria Richardson Dandridge, Civil Rights Leader". Visit Dorchester. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
  16. ^ Witte, Brian (July 16, 2021). "Gloria Richardson, civil rights pioneer, dies at 99". Boston 25 News. Retrieved July 16, 2021.

Bibliography[]

Further reading[]

Scholarly monographs[]

Journal articles[]

  • Cook, Melanie B. (1988). "Gloria Richardson: Her Life and Work in SNCC". Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, Supplement: 51–53.
  • Foeman, Anita K. (May 1996). "Gloria Richardson: Breaking the Mold". Journal of Black Studies. 26 (5, Special Issue: The Voices of African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement): 604–615. doi:10.1177/002193479602600506. S2CID 145788465.
  • Millner, Sandra Y. (July 1996). "Recasting Civil Rights Leadership: Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge Movement". Journal of Black Studies. 26 (6): 668–687. doi:10.1177/002193479602600602. S2CID 145480828.
  • Richardson, Gloria (Winter 1964). "Freedom—Here and Now". Freedomways. 4: 32–34.
  • Szabo, Peter S. (Fall 1994). "An Interview with Gloria Richardson Dandridge" (PDF). Maryland Historical Magazine. 89: 347–358.

Dissertations and theses[]

  • Fitzgerald, Joseph R. (2005). Days of Wine and Roses: The Life of Gloria Richardson (Ph.D.). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University. OCLC 213097799.
  • Trever, Edward K. (1994). Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge Civil Rights Movement, 1962-1964 (M.A. thesis). Morgan State University. OCLC 32190676.

Non-academic works[]

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