John Lewis and Gloria Richardson (center) Protesting George Wallace in Cambridge, MD (1964)
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John Lewis and Gloria Richardson (center) Protesting George Wallace in Cambridge, MD (1964)
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And after all he did to oppress them, Wallace was somehow reelected to the Alabama governorship until the early 80s…with TONS of black votes his last election (apparently he just went out and claimed he had a reckoning and a change of heart). I will never cease to be confounded by that.
Photo taken May 11, 1964, in Cambridge, Maryland. To left, in glasses and dark shirt is (presumably) Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Ture). To his right is future congressman John Lewis, local Cambridge civil rights CNAC leader Gloria Richardson, and to the right Howard University student Cleveland Sellers. Sellers was later arrested for “inciting to riot” at the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre.
Photo taken by Frances Miller.
Gloria Richardson later was recognized by the state of Maryland with “Gloria Richardson Day” on February 12, 2017. She passed away July 15, 2021, at the age of 99.