'She Was Born a Leader': Civil Rights Pioneer Gloria Richardson Dies at 99

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In this July 21, 1963, file photo, Gloria Richardson, head of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, pushes a National Guardsman’s bayonet aside as she moves among a crowd of African Americans to convince them to disperse in Cambridge, Md. Photo: Associated Press file photo (AP)

Civil rights activist Gloria Richardson, whose fearlessness was famously immortalized in a photo of her pushing away a National Guardsman’s bayonet during a 1963 protest, has died at age 99.

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1. The heroines/heroes of my teens, although was a few years later before

I really understood. Can you imagine the courage it took in a time when someone like Gloria Richardson could easily been murdered going home.

RIP.