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Gloria Richardson, Civil Rights Pioneer, Dies at 99

By Brian Witte, Associated Press Gloria Richardson, an influential yet largely unsung civil rights pioneer whose determination not to back down while protesting racial inequality was captured in a photograph as she pushed away the bayonet of a National Guardsman, has died. She was 99. Tya Young, her granddaughter, said Richardson died in her sleep […]

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