From an early Civil Rights organizer to a documentary film director, Silver Spring’s Judy Richardson has been a part of much of this country’s history for the past 60 years.
And she has no intention of slowing down now as she approaches her 80th birthday.
During Black History Month, Richardson reminisced about her work enabling southern Blacks to vote without being killed, sitting at a lunch counter where she was not welcome, working for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and going to jail.
But most of all, she spoke about the kinship she developed with other organizers and why she believes, “If you do nothing, nothing ever changes.”
