One hundred activists–some members of CIG, some from other Maryland colleges–marched downtown challenging segregation in public facilities. The pair concluded that was false and talked to numerous Black leaders who described unjust treatment of African Americans in schools, restaurants, by the police, and more.ĭue to Hansen and Robinson’s reports, CIG continued with their demonstration, the first of which was held on January 13th. The two SNCC field secretaries met with a number of people during their investigation, including town officials, teachers, and the Equal Opportunity Commission, all of whom tried to convince them that Cambridge didn’t have a race problem. Richardson and her daughter, Donna, had already begun planning for protests in the city. They stayed at the home of Gloria Richardson’s grandfather, Herbert St. Robinson and Freedom Ride veteran, William Hansen, arrived on Januto begin investigating what was possible. ![]() So Robinson was a natural choice to go to Cambridge when the CIG decided to investigate the possibility of supporting protest in Cambridge and on the Eastern Shore. Dixon “was a different kind of guy,” recalled Robinson, noting that he was “teaching me what things needed to be done.” For Dickson, who was also the first Black man to sit on Baltimore’s city council, Reggie Robinson would be his connection to the local students and his eyes and ears on the ground while Dickson tried to push forward a public accommodations bill. As a student at the Cortez Peters Business School, Robinson had been the treasurer of CIG, and the dean of the school, Walter Dickson, had appointed him CIG’s representative to SNCC. He was the first to join Bob Moses in McComb, Mississippi. Robinson was one of SNCC’s earliest field secretaries. One of these activists was Reggie Robinson. Clair, suggested that CIG place activists directly in Cambridge to investigate the city’s race relations problems. ![]() After ten CIG members were arrested for trespassing and spent Christmas in jail in the town of Crisfield, the cousin of Gloria Richardson, bail bondsman Frederick St. The Civic Interest Group (CIG) of Baltimore and CORE were the major proponents of these protests, which soon began expanding to cities and towns along Maryland’s Eastern Shore. ![]() In the summer of 1961, sit-ins and freedom rides began along Route 40, which pulled Cambridge’s Gloria Richardson into the Movement. Reggie Robinson and SNCC arrive in Cambridge, MarylandĪlthough Cambridge, Maryland on the Eastern Shore of the state was not geographically in the South, it was as rigidly segregated as any southern city.
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