Person · 1938–
Diane Nash
A student leader of the Nashville sit-ins and the Freedom Rides who kept the movement moving when others wanted to stop.
A student architect of the [[civil-rights-movement]].
Diane Nash helped lead the Nashville lunch-counter sit-ins and co-founded SNCC. When the Freedom Rides were halted by mob violence in 1961, it was Nash who insisted they continue, organizing fresh riders to take the place of the injured.
She went on to help conceive the Selma voting-rights campaign. Her strategic nerve made her one of the most important — and long under-credited — organizers of the era.