Protesters at 11th Street and Vermont Avenue NW, during a march against Capital Transit that Marie Richardson helped organize, May 1943.
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Employment - Marie Richardson, United Federal Workers' Rep
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Employment - Marie Richardson, United Federal Workers' Rep
Civil Rights Tour: Employment - Marie Richardson, United Federal Workers' Rep
Marie Richardson (1920-1987) became a labor and civil rights activist in the 1930s, while a student at Cardozo High School. Her father handled baggage at Union Station, and together they helped organize the first local union in the country to…