Richardson was honored with five other women leaders by being seated on the stage at the August 1963 Gloria St. Clair Hayes was born in 1922 to John and Mable (née St. Clair) Hayes in Cambridge, Maryland, the county seat of Dorchester County.
SNCC had been contacted by activists in the city.
In an interview with In December 1961, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent Reginald Robinson and William Hansen to Cambridge to organize civil rights actions. Her mother was part of the affluent St. Clair family, which owned and operated a successful grocery store and funeral home. Donna Richardson, Gloria's daughter, was among fellow students who supported the demonstrators. The federal government intervened in an effort to end the violence and protests. The city government hired blacks as social workers only to serve black clients in the all-black ward. Her mother was part of the affluent St. Clair family, which owned and operated a successful grocery store and funeral home. Richardson and Yolanda Sinclair, another mother of a protester, were among parents who wanted to show their support for these actions.
He died in his early twenties in Cambridge because of segregation. "The one thing we did was to emphasize that while you should be educated, that education, degrees, college degrees were not essential [here]. This was the first time I saw a vehicle I could work with". General Gelston of the National Guard announced that he was changing the rules of martial law: he announced a curfew of 9 P.M. instead of 10, stores were to close at 2 P.M. instead of 9 P.M., firearms were banned, and automobile searches by police and National Guard were authorized. Her maternal grandfather had served on the Cambrid…
In June 1962, Richardson was asked and helped organize the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee (CNAC), the first adult-led affiliate of SNCC. They had been Black males had been able to vote in Maryland since emancipation after the Civil War. She became its official spokesperson.Richardson said in a later interview on why she was committed to CNAC's leadership reflecting the community.
After another woman was chosen over Richardson for a social worker position in the "black" ward, she decided to focus on her family and civic work for several years. Gil Noble, "Interview with Gloria Richardson Dandridge," Attorney General By the autumn of 1963, black children in Cambridge were attending previously all-white schools, bus transportation was desegregated, the library and hospital were desegregated, and a black policeman on the force was promoted. Her family was also involved in politics. At 8 P.M. that night 250 African Americans staged a "freedom walk" to the Dorchester County Courthouse. They wanted to replace state senator Richardson later recalled that she had been a rebellious person since childhood but also identified as an adult as part of a community of militant The sit-ins and civil unrest continued in 1963. Within that ward, blacks had built up substantial religious and business communities.