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  2. Diane Nash - Wikipedia

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    Freedom Award. Diane Judith Nash (born May 15, 1938) is an American civil rights activist, and a leader and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement . Nash's campaigns were among the most successful of the era. Her efforts included the first successful civil rights campaign to integrate lunch counters (Nashville); [1] the ...

  3. Civil rights icon Diane Nash honored at steps where she ... - AOL

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    A parade led gatherers to the courthouse, the same route protesters marched leading up to Nash's confrontation with West in response to the bombing of attorney and civil rights activist Z ...

  4. Freedom Riders - Wikipedia

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    Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. [ 3]

  5. Ella Baker - Wikipedia

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    Movement. Civil rights movement. Spouse. Bob Roberts. . . ( m. 1938; div. 1958) . Ella Josephine Baker (December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986) was an African-American civil rights and human rights activist. She was a largely behind-the-scenes organizer whose career spanned more than five decades.

  6. How Nashville's Southern Student Organizing Committee was ...

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    June 15, 2024 at 12:36 PM. In 1964, student activists at Scarritt College in Nashville formed one of the many civil rights groups that pushed for equality and racial justice. The group, called the ...

  7. List of civil rights leaders - Wikipedia

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    Betty Friedan. Frank Kameny. Elie Wiesel. Desmond Tutu. James Bevel. George Mason. Civil rights leaders are influential figures in the promotion and implementation of political freedom and the expansion of personal civil liberties and rights. They work to protect individuals and groups from political repression and discrimination by governments ...

  8. James Lawson, towering Civil Rights activist and ... - AOL

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    Lawson was an American civil rights icon who worked alongside luminaries like King, Diane Nash, John Lewis and C.T. Vivian to promote nonviolent activism in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

  9. James Bevel - Wikipedia

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    James Luther Bevel (October 19, 1936 – December 19, 2008) was an American minister and leader of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in the United States.As a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and then as its director of direct action and nonviolent education, Bevel initiated, strategized, and developed SCLC's three major successes of the era: [2] [3] the 1963 ...