On this date (13 Feb) in 1960, students from 4 Black colleges in Nashville, Tennessee began a successful sit-in that saw the desegregation of lunch establishments across the country.
Only 260 days left 'til next Halloween!
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✊ Honoring Diane Nash: Champion of Peaceful Change and Unwavering Courage ✊
A remarkable leader in the Civil Rights Movement whose strategic mind and peaceful determination helped shape American history.
#DianeNash #CivilRightsHistory
🎉 Today we celebrate the courageous #DianeNash. One of the founding members of #SNCC and a fearless strategist behind the #FreedomRides and #Selma campaigns, Nash showed the world what disciplined, loving resistance could do!
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Stepping for a good cause, then and now.
#DianeNash #WalksWithTheTrustee
- Metropolitan Trustee Erica S. Gilmore @nashville.gov @freddieoconnell.bsky.social
Less than 2 weeks until we walk to honor #CivilRightsMovement leader #DianeNash!
Nash publicly asked Mayor Ben West his opinion on segregation, directly causing the desegregation of Nashville's lunch counters. 🙌🏾
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- Trustee Erica S. Gilmore
#DianeNash
Nash's campaigns: 1st successful civil rights campaign to integrate lunch counters (Nashville), the Freedom Riders, who desegregated interstate travel, co-founding the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee & co-initiating the Alabama Voting Rights Project
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How Freedom Rider Diane Nash Risked Her Life to Desegregate the South
Now an icon of the Civil Rights Movement, Nash was arrested dozens of times for non-violent protests—including while six months pregnant.
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2025 #DianeNash
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