Radical and unyielding, Gloria Richardson’s activism cannot be erased - @reneeygraham
bostonglobe.com/2021/07/20/opi… via @BostonGlobe
bostonglobe.com/2021/07/20/opi… via @BostonGlobe
"'She would not compromise on Black people’s rights,' said Joseph R. Fitzgerald, author of The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation.
That iron will didn’t sit well with many men in the civil rights movement who harbored sexist attitudes."
That iron will didn’t sit well with many men in the civil rights movement who harbored sexist attitudes."
Richardson and other women balked at the “politics of respectability” that dictated how they should behave in public, Fitzgerald said. At the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, Richardson could only utter “Hello” before the microphone was snatched away.
"In her book, “A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History,” Jeanne Theoharis calls the reduction of women’s stature in the movement “The Great Man View of History.”
"Women, if they are discussed at all, are 'rendered . . . as passive and meek,' which neuters 'them for a generation of freedom fighters,' she writes. bostonglobe.com/2021/07/20/opi…
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