Gloria Richardson was a civil rights activist known for her role in intense protests in early-1960s Cambridge, Maryland.Richardson became involved in the civil rights movement in the early 1960s, becoming a leader of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee (CNAC), an associate of the famed Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
She worked to survey the Black residents of Cambridge and determined they were most concerned about severe inequalities in housing, jobs, and education.
Much of the city’s Black community was impoverished, and a large employer had recently closed.A series of protests in Cambridge in the early 1960s erupted into violent clashes and race riots, and martial law was imposed on the city.
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