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Civil Rights Leader Gloria Richardson, Author David Grimm on US pets


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Civil rights leader Gloria Richardson reflects on the struggle in the 1960s to end segregation in Cambridge, plus Tom Hall talks with author David Grimm about man's best friend.

Fifty years ago, civil rights leader Gloria Richardson marched on picket lines to end segregation in Cambridge, on the Eastern Shore. When we spoke this spring, she told us how she reacted at one demonstration to racial slurs shouted at her, and how her daughter kept her cool. 

Americans are sharing their homes with four times as many pets as in the 1960s. And courts are more disposed to see pets as part of the family. Tom Hall talks with Baltimore-based writer David Grimm about his new book “Citizen Canine.” It looks at the changing status of animals, inside and outside the home.    
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