She'd spent months coordinating Freedom Rides of buses full of black and white protesters across the South. She'd resisted anyone, including the Kennedy administration, who told her to stop them.

Nash was also instrumental in leading the Freedom Riders' 1961 challenge to segregation on interstate buses, the 1965 voting rights campaign in Selma, Alabama, and was a founder of the Student ...

Catherine Burks-Brooks, who as a 21-year-old Freedom Rider was among a small group of Nashville students who kept the movement to desegregate public transportation in the South going after its ...

Refusing to post bail, Nash faced stints in jail for civil disobediece and coordinated the Freedom Riders to integrate interstate buses, refusing to end the movement after one of the initial rides ...

"Love is Loud" is the first picture book about civil rights heroine Diane Nash, who played as integral a role in the movement as MLK and John Lewis.

When South Side-born Diane Nash was 21, she organized the first of many lunch counter sit-ins at a segregated Nashville eatery. Salt, sugar and hot coffee were thrown on the young woman as she ...

She would go on to be thrown in jail, and she coordinated the Freedom Riders’ journey through Nashville. She worked with President John F. Kennedy to create the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and ...

Diane J. Nash arrived in Washington, D.C. in early July as a courageous one, but she stood before President Joseph R. Biden to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom July 7 as thousands.

Diane J. Nash arrived in Washington, D.C. in early July as a courageous one, but she stood before President Joseph R. Biden to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom July 7 as thousands.

Chicago native Diane Nash was awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor on Thursday by President Joe Biden in Washington, D.C. Nash was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work ...

Nash was on the front lines of the civil rights movement as one of the "Freedom Riders." READ MORE: Simone Biles, Megan Rapinoe, Denzel Washington among 17 awarded Medal of Freedom ...