Sixty-four years ago, Diane Nash asked a question and changed Nashville ... she confronted Nashville's then-Mayor Ben West and asked if he thought it was wrong to discriminate against people ...
On April 19, 1960, Diane Nash led a crowd of thousands on a fateful march to the courthouse steps. When they arrived, Nash confronted then-Mayor Ben West and asked him if he believed downtown ...
After she moved from Chicago to Nashville to attend Fisk University, Diane Nash experienced segregation ... and famously convinced Nashville mayor Ben West to admit that segregation was wrong.