'She did it because it needed to be done, and she was born a leader.' Gloria Richardson, an influential yet largely unsung civil rights pioneer whose determination was captured in a photo as she pushed away a National Guardsman's bayonet, has died at 99.
Tya Young, her granddaughter, said Richardson died in her sleep Thursday in New York City and had not been ill. Young said while her grandmother was at the forefront of the civil rights movement, she didn’t seek praise or recognition.Richardson was the first woman to lead a prolonged grassroots civil rights movement outside the Deep South.
In pursuit of these goals, Richardson advocated for the right of Black people to defend themselves when attacked. In 1962, Richardson attended the meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Atlanta and later joined the board. She was one of the nation’s leading female civil rights’ activists and inspired younger activists who went on to protest racial inequality in the late 1960s and into the 1970s.
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