Sixty-four years ago, Diane Nash asked a question and changed Nashville forever. On Saturday, hundreds celebrated her near the courthouse plaza that bears her name. Nashville's Metro Council named ...

Diane Nash was born in Chicago. She attended Howard University, a historically Black college, before transferring to Fisk University in Tennessee. She gained prominence during the 1960 Nashville ...

In 1986 Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday became a national holiday. By 1961, Diane Nash had emerged as one of the most respected student leaders of the sit-in movement in Nashville, TN.

Sixty years after the Bloody Sunday march in Selma Alabama, the contributions of Black women civil rights activists are still being acknowledged today.

After she moved from Chicago to Nashville to attend Fisk University, Diane Nash experienced segregation for the first time. She immediately became active in local workshops on nonviolent protest ...