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‘I wasn’t afraid’ – Gloria Richardson on pushing away a bayonet in historic civil rights photo - Face2Face Africa

As one of the leading members of the Cambridge Movement, Gloria Richardson led several civil rights protests in Maryland in the 1960s. The no-nonsense Richardson, who refused to be intimidated by law enforcement officers, is famously remembered for the iconic photo of her pushing away the bayonet of a National Guardsman during a demonstration in...

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