According to James Forman, “Diane Nash Bevel was responsible for the organization of a lot of us, including myself.” Through Nash’s work as a strategist, organizer, and fieldworker ...

"Diane and I obviously shared that ... boys home clearly was the next right thing. Nash had married a Nashville movement colleague, James Bevel. The two prevailed on Martin Luther King Jr. to ...

Diane J. Nash arrived in Washington ... GOP leaders’ grip of white supremacy He sat with his father, Douglass Bevel, who, in the spring of 1962, was the baby with which Nash was several months ...

Diane Nash was born in Chicago. She attended Howard University, a historically Black college, before transferring to Fisk University in Tennessee. She gained prominence during the 1960 Nashville ...

Susan Walsh/Associated Press Share Chicago native Diane Nash was awarded the ... During the summer of 1961, Nash married activist James Bevel, who had been a classmate at Fisk.

Diane Nash, pictured in 2011, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Thursday, July 7. Photo by Leigh Vogel / Getty Images On May 14, 1961, an angry mob attacked the Freedom Riders—a ...

Diane Nash, 84, was a founding member of the Student ... that prompted Nash and her then-husband, James Bevel, to plan the Selma campaign, she remembered in a 2008 interview.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - On Saturday, April 20, the Diane Nash Committee and the Nashville community commemorated the contributions Nash had with the Civil Rights Movement. The celebration of ...

Donation Options Search Search Search The new picture book “Love Is Loud” spotlights the achievements of Chicago-born civil rights activist Diane Nash. Paula Wiseman Books, Simon & Schuster ...