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Gloria Richardson (1922–2021), civil rights activist
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.