legs to deter attack dogs, you understand the enormity of the struggle for equality". In 2017, the state of Maryland honored her legacy by dedicating February 11 as “Gloria Richardson Day”. Although Richardson was not able to travel as planned to Cambridge’s historic Bethel AME Church to be recognized in person, she spoke to the packed church in a live remote broadcast from her apartment. Five months later, a fireside chat was facilitated by Kisha Petticolas, the co-founder of the Eastern Shore Network for Change (ESNC), at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Resort in Cambridge. Richardson was a featured speaker at the Reflection’s banquet, where her remarks “brought 300 guests to their feet in a sustained standing ovation”. Richardson helped to establish a new image for Black women in the United States. She replaced the image of a long-suffering martyr with the image of a woman as a warrior. When Richardson was asked how she would like to be remembered, she replied: “I guess I would like for them to say I was true to my belief in black people as a race”. Today, there is a mural placed left of center next to Dorchester native and Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman of Gloria boldly demanding justice. She died in New York on July 15, 2021. References Bibliography Further reading Scholarly monographs Fitzgerald, Joseph R. (2018). The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. . Journal articles Dissertations and theses Non-academic works External links SNCC Digital Gateway: Gloria Richardson, Documentary website created by the SNCC Legacy Project and Duke University, telling the story of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and grassroots organizing from the inside-out Cambridge MD, Movement 1962-1967, Provided by the Civil Rights Movement Archive website How Gloria Richardson’s Look of Righteous Indignation Became a Symbol of No Retreat, an article by Janelle Harris Dixon containing many photographs of and an extensive interview of Gloria Richardson, Smithsonian, February 9, 2022 1922 births 2021 deaths African-American activists Activists for African-American civil rights Activists from Maryland Activists from New York City Civil rights movement History of civil rights in the United States Howard University alumni People from Baltimore People from Cambridge, Maryland 21st-century African-American people