These were Freedom Riders, Alexander Strickland told ... “There’s Rev. King and Diane Nash by the refrigerator, and John Lewis with the bandage on the back of his head.” ...

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 ...

Sixty-four years ago, Diane Nash asked a question and changed Nashville forever. On Saturday, hundreds celebrated her near the courthouse plaza that bears her name. Nashville's Metro Council named ...

The Freedom Riders were a brave group of more than 400 ... a project by inflicting enough violence on it,” activist Diane Nash told History.com. Nash, then a student at Fisk University in ...

NEW HAVEN >> Civil rights icon Diane Nash advised her mostly young student ... in jail for civil disobediece and coordinated the Freedom Riders to integrate interstate buses, refusing to end ...

"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 ...

In Nashville, a group of students led by Diane Nash, one of the founders of the ... and they were determined that violence would not stop the Freedom Rides. Catherine Burks, a senior at Tennessee ...

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 ...

Award-winning author and former ESPN reporter Sandra Neil Wallace has once again teamed up with illustrator Bryan Collier to pen a story about Diane Nash ... with the Freedom Rides, and gaining ...

Paula Wiseman Books, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Share When South Side-born Diane Nash was 21 ... and she coordinated the Freedom Riders’ journey through Nashville.