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Nashville honors civil rights leader Diane Nash
Tennessee Lookout via Yahoo News· 1 month agoDiane Nash, an icon of the Civil Rights Movement, was honored Saturday in Nashville with the dedication of a public plaza and a gala at Meharry Medical...
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 icons Diane Nash, Fred Gray awarded Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCivil rights icons Diane Nash and Fred Gray on Thursday afternoon were awarded the nation's highest...
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,...
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...
Civil rights leader Bernard Lafayette to help launch Fisk-Belmont social justice initiative. What to...
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLongtime civil rights leader Bernard Lafayette is set to speak Thursday in Nashville at the launch...
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...
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,...