Gloria Richardson

Gloria St. Clair Hayes Richardson (born May 6, 1922) is best known as the leader of the Cambridge Movement, a civil rights struggle in Cambridge, Maryland in the 1960s. The Movement made significant strides against institutionalized racial discrimination in Cambridge by bringing attention to social injustices such as inadequate wages, poor housing, and poor health care. Gloria Richardson was born in Baltimore, Maryland to John and Mable Hayes, and could trace her family roots back to St. Augustine, Florida. Her father was a pharmacist and her mother was a piano teacher/homemaker. During the early years of the Great Depression, the Hayes family moved from Baltimore to Mable Hayes' hometown of Cambridge, Maryland. The family’s move to...