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Nashville civil rights veteran Diane Nash to be honored with Presidential Medal of Freedom
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDiane Nash was pivotal force of civil rights movement in Nashville, helping organize sit-ins and...
Civil rights icon Diane Nash honored at steps where she confronted mayor on segregation
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 1 month agoSixty-four years ago, Diane Nash asked a question and changed Nashville forever. On Saturday,...
Simone Biles, Denzel Washington Among New Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
The Root via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIf you thought Simone Biles was done making history and collecting medals…not so fast. The decorated...
Diane Nash merits the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but she deserves much more | Opinion
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDiane J. Nash arrived in Washington, D.C. in early July as a courageous one, but she stood before...
16 Lesser-Known Quotes From Influential Civil Rights Leaders
HuffPost Life via Yahoo News· 4 months agoFrom left: Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer, Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis. At a time when...
14 heroes of the Civil Rights Movement whose names you may not recognize
Stacker via AOL· 5 months agoPhoto Illustration by Stacker // Getty Images In mainstream accounts of the Civil Rights Movement,...
Opinion | Our Generals Are Bad at Strategy. They Should Study the Civil Rights Movement.
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe U.S. military has struggled mightily in recent decades. American armed forces excel at tactics,...
MLK Day: 5 women who played a vital role in the civil rights movement
MAKERS via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAs we celebrate MLK Day and extraordinary accomplishments of the civil rights leader, MAKERS is...
Sexism almost sidelined Black women at 1963 March on Washington. How they fought back.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 9 months agoWASHINGTON − As the preliminary program for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom came...
'Rest in Power': Nashville Civil Rights activist King Hollands dead at 82
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 5 months agoCivil rights activist King Madison Hollands, a leader in the 1960s Nashville Student Movement to racially integrate the region, died Wednesday. He was 82 years old. His cause of death and information ...