Did you know Nashville was the first major city to officially desegregate public lunch counters? The 1960 Nashville sit-ins ...

After she moved from Chicago to Nashville to attend Fisk University, Diane Nash experienced segregation ... An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s (New ...

Ralph Abernathy was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s ... Jr.'s birthday became a national holiday. By 1961, Diane Nash had emerged as one of the most respected student ...