The struggle is eternal : Gloria Richardson and black liberation / Joseph R. Fitzgerald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fitzgerald, Joseph R., 1965- author.

Series:

Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.

Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Richardson, Gloria, 1922-2021.

Richardson, Gloria.

Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee (Cambridge, Md.).

African American women civil rights workers--Biography.

African American women civil rights workers.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 pages).

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2018].

Summary:

Using an extensive body of sources, including more than 30 interviews, this biography details and analyzes the life of human rights activist Gloria Richardson, leader of the Cambridge movement in Maryland during the 1960s. Because her radical and uncompromising positions on black liberation were highly influential on the Black Power wave of the black liberation movement, this text depicts Richardson as a progenitor of Black Power who served in its leadership vanguard. This work also moves the geographic borders of Black Power's roots south to Maryland's Eastern Shore, detailing the Cambridge movement's social justice campaign for more jobs and improvements in housing, health care, and education.

Contents:

Foundations

Get up, stand up

Capital gains

Dreams deferred

Shock therapy, round one

Shock therapy, round two

A nonnegotiable right

Creative chaos

Vanguard

"You will not be able to stay home, [sister]"

Back to work.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2018.

ISBN:

0-8131-7654-9

0-8131-7652-2

0-8131-7653-0