Short Biography: Gloria Richardson

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Gloria Richardson was born May 6, 1922 to a very wealthy family in Baltimore, Maryland to the parents of John and Mabel Hayes. At age 6 her family moved to the city Cambridge where they owned a very successful hardware store. Gloria attended Howard University in Washington, D.C at age 16 and graduated in 1942 with a B.A in Sociology. She attempted to become a social worker but she was banned from all positions because of her race. Gloria married a local school teacher, Harry Richardson and raised a family with no job so she just became a housewife. Being able to not have a job made Gloria very fierce and wanted this problem to be solved which made her attend her very first movement. She was in the front of the crowd of many people

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