#debates 2020

Joe Biden on Donald Trump: 

“Trump: I am urging my supporters to go to the polls and watch them very closely. 

Me, walking past 19 Proud Boys so I can go vote:”

[Photo of civil rights activist  Gloria Richardson pushing a National Guard member’s bayonet aside during a civil rights protest]

- Cheryl Lynn Eaton 

The story behind that AMAZING photo

Maryland native Gloria Richardson, heralded as ‘second Harriet Tubman,’ honored with portrait in Baltimore museum

“The strong-willed housewife rose to national prominence as a civil rights leader after photographs were published showing her pushing aside the bayonets of the National Guardsmen who had been sent to Cambridge, leading marches and being arrested as she fought for civil rights for African Americans on the Eastern Shore.”

“Masked National Guardsmen with their bayonets held at the ready surround the jeep of Brig, Gen. George Gelson, head of the guard unit here, as Stanley Branche, chairman of the Committee for Freedom Now (left) and Mrs. Gloria Richardson (center) stand beside him. The guard had to disperse a crowd of approximately 300 who tried to march toward the arena in Cambridge where Alabama Gov. George Wallace was speaking in 1964″

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Richardson

“Gloria Richardson Dandridge (born Gloria St. Clair Hayes; May 6, 1922) is best known as the leader of the Cambridge movement, a civil rights struggle in the early 1960s in Cambridge, Maryland, on the Eastern Shore. Recognized as a major figure in the Civil Rights Movement at the time, she was one of the signatories to "The Treaty of Cambridge", signed in July 1963 with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and state and local officials after the riot the month before.