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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Medal (1990) Amelia Isadora Platts Boynton Robinson (August 18, 1905 – August 26, 2015) was an American activist who was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama, [1] and a key figure in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches . In 1984, she became founding vice-president of the Schiller ...
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 ...
James Lawson. Strategist. James Bevel and Diane Nash. The Nashville Student Movement was an organization that challenged racial segregation in Nashville, Tennessee, during the Civil Rights Movement. It was created during workshops in nonviolence taught by James Lawson. The students from this organization initiated the Nashville sit-ins in 1960.
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.
Honorary Degree, Swarthmore College (2007) Robert Parris Moses (January 23, 1935 – July 25, 2021) was an American educator and civil rights activist known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on voter education and registration in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, and his co-founding of ...