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Joseph Fitzgerald’s The Struggle Is Eternal is the first book to fully examine the Cambridge movement and its leader, Gloria Richardson. In 1963, I saw that unforgettable magazine photograph of Gloria Richardson calmly facing an armed contingent of soldiers who were sent to put down the movement she led in Cambridge, Maryland. Mrs. Richardson evolved into a civil rights leader whom the authorities considered almost as dangerous as Martin Luther King Jr. She remains engaged in the struggle for social justice to this day. I am thrilled that Fitzgerald’s work allows a broader audience to know Gloria Richardson, and to enhance their understanding of the civil rights movement, in which she played a significant role. —Kathleen Cleaver, Emory University School of Law, and former communications secretary of the Black Panther PartyGloria Richardson was front-page news at the helm of the militant Cambridge movement. Malcolm X admired her as the new brand of leadership in ‘A Message to the Grassroots’ and Stokely Carmichael followed her into battle, but somehow the history books lost her in their leading-man narrative of civil rights. Finally, students have the long-awaited Gloria Richardson biography. Read this book and rediscover a golden age of street fighting and self-defense spanning civil rights and black power. —Komozi Woodard, author of A Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black Power PoliticsNo history of the civil rights movement is complete without understanding the life and work of Gloria Richardson. Finally, we have a serious biography of her that will deepen our understanding of the key organizing and leadership roles women like Richardson played in the struggle. Joseph Fitzgerald’s rich history of Richardson’s leadership of the Cambridge movement, which fought for housing, education, jobs, healthcare and desegregation, offers much for reckoning where we have been in this country and where we must go today.—Jeanne Theoharis, author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa ParksJoseph R. Fitzgerald is assistant professor of history and political science at Cabrini University. His areas of focus include critical race feminism and the civil rights and black power waves of the modern black liberation movement.Kisha Petticolas is an Assistant Public Defender in Talbot County, Maryland, where she focuses most of her attention in the area of juvenile justice.  Before joining The Office of the Public Defender, she was the first African-American member of the Talbot County State’s Attorneys Office, were she served for three and a half years. When not practicing law, she is heavily involved in community service.  She co-founded the Eastern Shore Network for Change (ESNC), served on the board of the Pine Street Committee, and is an active member of the Dorchester County NAACP.Dion Banks is a lifetime member of the Dorchester County NAACP, served on the Pine Street Steering Committee, 2012 graduate of Leadership Maryland, host of White House Roundtable on Renewable Energy for U.S. Department of Agriculture - 2012, member of the Maryland Thermal Energy Taskforce – 2013, part of Governor O’Malley’s Trade Mission to Brazil – 2013, past board member of Dorchester County YMCA, past board member of the United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore, a member of the Cambridge Economic Steering Committee, 2017 incoming board member of the Upper Shore Workforce Investment Board, Diplomacy Speaker for the United States Department of State U.S. Speaker Program for International Information Programs, and co-founder of Eastern Shore Network for Change (ESNC). Because of their national acclaimed event, Reflections on Pine, 4 full days of events that commemorated the Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, MD, The United States Embassy afforded them the opportunity to be ambassadors for change in Ethiopia for 10 days in February 2018.