Gloria Richardson, a firebrand civil rights activist who drew national attention in the early 1960s in a showdown on Maryland’s Eastern Shore that presaged the Black Power movement and led to a year-long imposition of martial law, died July 15 at her home in Manhattan. She was 99.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Gloria Richardson, fiery civil rights activist in Maryland showdown, dies at 99
By Gary Gately
July 16, 2021 at 6:40 p.m. EDT