Milestones
Jul 23, 2021
3 minutes
—JOSIAH BATES
By Ice-T
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As told to
ANDREW R. CHOW
By Nancy Grace
DIED
Gloria Richardson
THERE ARE MANY LEADers from the civil rights era who remain all too often overlooked, despite their work carrying significant weight in the fight for racial equality. Gloria Richardson, who died on July 16 at 99, is one such figure.
Richardson was heavily involved in civil rights activism in the city of Cambridge, Md.—where she was captured in an iconic photograph pushing away a rifle in the hands
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