Diane Nash

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By Caleb Jones Wagner class of 2018 Diane Nash May 15, 1938 -present “I think there is no greater invention of the 20th century than Mohandas Gandhi’s invention of a way of making social change without killing and maiming each other,” BIO Diane Nash was a pioneer of the nonviolent civil rights movement. Nash had always experienced Racism, like most other African Americans.She grew up in Chicago, Illinois. As she grew up she attended Howard University for one year in Washington DC, but then transferred to Fisk University an HBC in Tennessee. At this time the schools and buses in Tennessee where integrated however racial discrimination still occurred regularly. Nash gained knowledge of students in Greensboro, North Carolina doing sit-ins, so she and fellow Students from Tennessee did the same. They were beaten, abused, and ended up getting arrested. Nash refused to pay...