Gloria Richardson negotiates end of Civil Rights demonstrations in Cambridge

Cambridge

July 23, 1963

Categories: African American, Civil Rights
Tags: 1941 – 1989, Dorchester County

Gloria Richardson Carney Dandridge (1922-2021) leads the Cambridge Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (CNCC) as it signs the Treaty of Cambridge with U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. The treaty ends segregation in Cambridge in accommodations, public schools and housing and implements a jobs program. Local residents refuse to honor the Treaty.

Richardson is raised in a successful Cambridge African American family. Always outspoken, she leads many CNCC demonstrations, some marked by violence, and receive national attention. She is on the stage of the 1963 March on Washington.

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