Other Freedom Riders recalled his quick wit and hard-nosed ... In 1986 Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday became a national holiday. By 1961, Diane Nash had emerged as one of the most respected ...

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 ...

Freedom Riders is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white ...

commemorating the 1961 Freedom Rides for which Attorney General Robert Kennedy asked John Seigenthaler, “Who the hell is Diane Nash?” Back then, I was a graduate student at Vanderbilt ...

Nashville civil rights veteran Diane Nash, who led sit-ins, coordinated freedom rides and was jailed while pregnant for teaching minors nonviolent protest tactics, will be honored with a ...

She was the organizer of freedom rides and that was monumental," he said. "Nashville was the first city, the first major city in the south to desegregate and it was really because of Diane Nash." ...

"Diane and I obviously shared that point ... Fisk after missing more classes than she ever imagined. Nash helped coordinate Freedom Rides of young people on buses the federal government was ...

Diane Nash, 22, has earned combat stripes in the ... May 23, 1960), joined the Freedom Riders (along with 22 Nashville students) in Montgomery. A Catholic and light enough in color to pass for ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Diane Nash is a Founding Member ... and present civil rights leaders … Diane Nash, who helped coordinate the Freedom Rides in the 1960s, spoke about her role as a ...