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Hace 2 días · These churches provided a home to many future notable national civil rights figures, including John Lewis, Diane Nash, James Bevel, Marion Barry, Bernard Lafayette, among others. Nashville churches provided activists nonviolent training and place of refuge during civil rights protests in Nashville, and a religious theology to combat social injustice.
Hace 4 días · Diane Nash: Co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; architect of multiple civil rights and integration efforts such as lunch counter sit-ins and voting rights movements Ella Baker: A prominent organizer and activist in the civil rights movement; mentored many leaders in SNCC
Hace 2 días · When the lunch counter sit-in movement of 1960 “ripped through Dixie with the speed of a rocket and the contagion of the old plague” (as a writer for the Chicago Defender put it), many were left wondering where this all came from. 1 The students who led the movement emphasized the spontaneous elements of the sit-ins. The protests, they insisted over and over again, were nothing more than a ...
Hace 1 día · The tribute introduced Daisy Bates, Diane Nash, Prince E. Lee, Rosa Parks, and Gloria Richardson. Following that, speakers were Presbyterian Church leader Eugene Carson Blake , SNCC chairman John Lewis , labor leader Walter Reuther , and CORE chairman Floyd McKissick (substituting for arrested CORE director James Farmer ).
Hace 8 horas · Cattle rancher and Wallowa County Commissioner Todd Nash handily won a four-way primary to replace retiring Sen. Bill Hansell, R-Athena, in the 29th Senate District that covers most of northeast ...
Hace 21 horas · Diane Nash, Customer Voice Manager at Progress Housing Group, said: “It is always very humbling hearing how much hard work and dedication everyone puts in to support their local community.
Hace 2 días · Shannon Nash: Elton and David’s collection allows us to bring out new intriguing narratives in photography that we may not have showcased with our own collections to our audiences before. One question – that we are leaving up to the visitors to answer – is what the exhibition reveals about the collectors themselves.
