Diane Nash

Diane Nash attended Fisk University and became a leader and strategist of the student wing of the 1960's Civil Rights Movement. Her campaigns were among the most successful of the era. Her efforts included the first successful civil rights campaign to desegregate lunch counters in Nashville. She also helped to desegregate interstate travel through her pivotal role in the Freedom Rides. In 1965, the Southern Christian Leadership Council gave its highest award, the Rosa Parks Award, to Nash. Her later awards included the Distinguished American Award from the John F. Kennedy Library and Foundation in 2003, the LBJ Award for Leadership in Civil Rights from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in 2004, and the Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum in 2008.

Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance), Tennessee · United States