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Presidential Medal of Freedom (2022) 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 ...
Diane Nash is greeted by supporters after cutting the ribbon commemorating the naming of “Diane Nash Plaza” in front of the Historic Metro Courthouse in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, April 20, 2024.
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]
Among those attending Lawson's sessions were students who would become significant leaders in the Civil Rights Movement, among them: Marion Barry, James Bevel, Bernard Lafayette, John Lewis, Diane Nash, and C. T. Vivian. During these workshops it was decided that the first target for the group's actions would be downtown lunch counters.
Diane Nash and Fred Gray were two of 17 people awarded the nation's highest civilian honor at the White House Thursday, July 7, 2022. Civil rights icons Diane Nash, Fred Gray awarded Medal of ...
Diane Nash was pivotal force of civil rights movement in Nashville, helping organize sit-ins and more. Fred Gray led pivotal legal cases in the movement.
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC, pronounced / snɪk / SNIK) was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s. Emerging in 1960 from the student-led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee, the Committee ...
James Morris Lawson Jr. (September 22, 1928 – June 9, 2024) was an American activist and university professor. He was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement. [1] During the 1960s, he served as a mentor to the Nashville Student Movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.