Back in the Day: Marching forward to honor MLK Jr.
Since I first started this column, more than twenty years ago, I have dedicated the column closest to the third Monday of January to the visionary that had a dream.
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Since I first started this column, more than twenty years ago, I have dedicated the column closest to the third Monday of January to the visionary that had a dream.
In 1963, the civil rights leader shoved aside a guardsmen’s bayonet with disgust and defiance; photography preserved the charged moment
According to her son-in-law, Richardson died Thursday in New York. Credit: (AP Photo/William Smith, File) FILE - May 11, 1964 - Stanley Branche, left, Gloria Richardson center and Brig. Gen. George Gelson, right, in Cambridge, Md. Author: BRIAN WITTE Associated Press Published: 6:49 PM EDT July 16, 2021 Updated: 6:49 PM EDT July 16, 2021 ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Gloria Richardson, an influential yet largely unsung civil rights pioneer whose determination not to back down while protesting racial inequality was captured in a photograph as she pushed aw...