Sixty-four years ago, Diane Nash asked a question and changed Nashville forever. On Saturday, hundreds celebrated her near the courthouse plaza that bears her name. Nashville's Metro Council named ...
She pointed to activists like Diane Nash, a notable leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and one of the marchers that Sunday. “She really transformed those tragedies into strategic ...
After she moved from Chicago to Nashville to attend Fisk University, Diane Nash experienced segregation for the first time. She immediately became active in local workshops on nonviolent protest ...
In 1986 Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday became a national holiday. By 1961, Diane Nash had emerged as one of the most respected student leaders of the sit-in movement in Nashville, TN.