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 ...

On April 19, 1960, Diane Nash led a crowd of thousands on a fateful march to the courthouse steps. When they arrived, Nash confronted then-Mayor Ben West and asked him if he believed downtown ...

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.

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 ...