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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 381 Print image (56K) |
| represented blacks in many discrimination cases for pittance wages. One of those cases was Parker v. the University of Delaware, which was decided in 1950, in which black undergraduates won the unrestricted right to attend the University of Delaware, making it the first institution of higher education in the nation to be ordered by the court to end segregation. Redding also authored the article "Desegregation in Higher Education in Delaware," in the Journal of Negro Education. Sources "Parker vs. the University of Delaware: The Desegregation of Higher Education in Delaware." Delaware History, Vol. XXII (Fall-Winter 1986-87): 111-23. Redding, Lewis. "Desegregation in Higher Education in Delaware." Journal of Negro Education 27 (1958): 253-59. Gloria Richardson Civil Rights Activist A product of the 1960s and a resident of Cambridge, Maryland, on the Eastern Shore, Gloria Richardson was a political activist during the Cambridge demonstrations of 1963. When the demonstrations began that spring, Richardson was a recent graduate of Howard University. She became a leader of the demonstrations and emphasized militancy and black pride. Militancy led to anger and opposition from the Cambridge town police and white citizens. Violence erupted, store windows were smashed, and shooting began, which led to martial law being declared in the town. State officials purportedly tried to speak to Gloria Richardson, but she refused, probably due to decades of mistrust, deceit, racism, and discrimination. U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy entered into negotiations in an effort to end the demonstrations. Kennedy promised open accommodations, the creation of a biracial commission to deal with unemployment, a new public housing program, and school integration at every grade level. Cambridge was under martial law the entire time and troops remained in town until May of 1965. On 24 July 1967, H. Rapp Brown came to town and urged local blacks to take control. Shooting began and fires broke out in the black district, which left two blocks burned to the ground, including approximately 40 black owned and operated businesses, which were never rebuilt. Gloria Richardson eventually left Cambridge and moved to New York City. Source Lowery, Charles D., and John F. Marszalek. Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. 87. 21 |