Diane Nash
American businesswoman known for civil rights activism · United States · On the map · Born 1938 · age 88
Diane Judith Nash is an American civil rights activist and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement. Nash's campaigns were among the most successful of the era.
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, You should become involved with the issue that moves you. Because ... the fact that it moves you is no accident.
When we were involved in the nonviolent movement of the 1960s, we did not know if nonviolence would work. ... Fortunately we discovered nonviolence does work.
For citizens to learn nonviolence and to take action is crucial.
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Her efforts included becoming the chairman of the Nashville Student Movement; organizing the Nashville sit-ins, the first successful civil rights campaign to integrate lunch counters; continuing the Freedom Rides, which desegregated interstate travel; co-founding the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); and co-initiated the Alabama Voting Rights Project and working on the Selma Voting Rights Movement with her husband, James Bevel.