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When freedom riders arrived in Cambridge, MD, in the early winter of 1962, Gloria Richardson, a forty-year-old single mother, was busy working in her family store and raising her two teenage girls. Within less than three years, she had helped build one of the most vibrant social movements in the nation. She negotiated an unprecedented

Elaine Weiss is an award-winning journalist and author known for her historical works on women’s suffrage and civil rights. Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement tells the story of four activists who established citizenship schools to help Black Americans pass literacy tests and reclaim their voting rights in the Jim