Friday, January 16 2009 - Beyond Civil Rights
Gloria Richardson, credit Joe Fitzgerald. Below, facing National Guard troops larger>>
One woman named on the program of the 1963 March on Washington never got to speak.
Gloria Richardson was a well-known confrontational activist from Cambridge, Md. She successfully fought there for equal economic and social rights for all African-Americans citizens. But when she stood at the podium at the march, she says the microphone was taken away: she was seen as too radical.
- See some of Gloria's photographs
- Learn more about Gloria's upcoming biography "The Struggle is Eternal"
- Hear a 1964 interview with Gloria Richardson
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