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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 Freedom Riders, who ...
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.
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. [12] During these workshops it was decided that the first target for the group's actions would be downtown lunch counters.
On May 7, Andre Holland joined the cast to play politician and civil rights activist Andrew Young. [11] On May 8, Tessa Thompson was cast to play the role of Diane Nash, a civil rights activist and founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. [24]
January 21, 1987. (1987-01-21) –. March 5, 1990. (1990-03-05) Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement is an American television series and 14-part documentary about the 20th-century civil rights movement in the United States. [1] The documentary originally aired on the PBS network, and it also aired in the United Kingdom on BBC2.
The Metro Council on Tuesday gave its final approval to the move honoring the civil rights veteran Diane Nash. Historic Metro Courthouse plaza to carry name of civil rights activist Diane Nash ...
The Friendship Nine, or Rock Hill Nine, [1] was a group of African-American men who went to jail after staging a sit-in at a segregated McCrory's lunch counter in Rock Hill, South Carolina in 1961. The group gained nationwide attention because they followed the 1960 Nashville sit-ins strategy of "Jail, No Bail", [2][3][4][5][6] which lessened ...
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile (87 km) highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of African-American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of ...