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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.
The city of Nashville held a dedication ceremony for the "Diane Nash Plaza" outside the Metro Courthouse on Saturday. Civil rights icon Diane Nash honored at steps where she confronted mayor on ...
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 ...
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 at the Clark Memorial United Methodist Church.
[1] [2] Among those attending who were to emerge as strategists for the committee and its field projects were Fisk University student Diane Nash, Tennessee State student Marion Barry, and American Baptist Theological Seminary students James Bevel, John Lewis, and Bernard Lafayette, all involved in the Nashville Student Movement; their mentor at ...
Preparations for mass registration commenced in early January, and with King out of town fundraising, were largely under the leadership of Diane Nash. On January 15, King called President Johnson and the two agreed to begin a major push for voting rights legislation which would assist in advancing the passage of more anti-poverty legislation. [21]
Diane Nash, a Nashville college student who was a leader of the Nashville Student Movement and SNCC, believed that if Southern violence were allowed to halt the Freedom Rides the movement would be set back years. She pushed to find replacements to resume the rides.
"Nuts, cheap, unrelenting, optimistic, sweet. She’s just crazy, Oh my God. But she writes great songs," the pop legend says about Warren in 'Diane Warren: Relentless'