Dedicated to the Proposition: Beyond Civil Rights

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:00:00

BEYOND CIVIL RIGHTS

Gloria Richardson, credit Joe Fitzgerald. Below, facing National Guard troops larger>>

One woman named on the program of the 1963 March on Washington never got to speak.

Gloria Richardson was a well-known confrontational activist from Cambridge, Md. She successfully fought there for equal economic and social rights for all African-Americans citizens. But when she stood at the podium at the march, she says the microphone was taken away: she was seen as too radical.

See some of Gloria's photographs
Learn more about Gloria's upcoming biography "The Struggle is Eternal"
Hear a 1964 interview with Gloria Richardson

One Man's March

Avon Rollins Credit: Shawn Poynter

Avon Rollins was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, SNCC, and one of the organizers of the March on Washington. He talks to Dick Gordon about his memories of that day - and his memories of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The two were close enough to arm wrestle - Avon says, in public, he always let Dr. King win.

Learn more about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Read more about Avon’s story
Listen to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech

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Dedicated to the Proposition: Beyond Civil Rights

BEYOND CIVIL RIGHTS

One Man's March