Diane Judith Nash 1938 – Diane Nash is an American civil rights activist, and a leader and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement. Nash’s campaigns were among the most successful of the era. Her efforts included the first successful civil rights campaign to integrate lunch counters , the Freedom Riders, who desegregated interstate travel, co-founding the Student Nonviolent Coordinating… Continue reading Diane Nash
Category: Women of Color and Accomplishment: Fighting for Equality
Women of Color and Accomplishment: Fighting for Equality. Book Two in the Women of Color and Accomplishment series.
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells, 1862 – 1931 Born into slavery, Ida B. Wells devoted nearly 50 years of her life to fearlessly fighting for racial justice, civil rights, and women’s suffrage. In 1884, while working as a teacher in the Shelby County school system in Memphis, Ida was forcibly removed from her seat in the “ladies… Continue reading Ida B. Wells