He also worked closely with Gloria Richardson, who led the SNCC chapter in Cambridge, Maryland.Faith S. Holsaert, et al, Hands on the Freedom Plow: Voices of Women in SNCC (University of Illinois Press, 2010), pp. 285–287. During a protest with Richardson in Maryland in June 1964, Carmichael was hit directly in a chemical gas attack by the National Guard and had to be hospitalized."Cambridge, Maryland & The White Backlash", Civil Rights Movement Archive website.
