Diane Nash is an American activist for civil and women’s rights. Nash’s work as a civil rights activist is extensive: she was a founding member of SNCC, she was a leader of the Nashville student sit-ins, and was a key strategist for the Birmingham campaign, the March on Washington, and the voter registration campaigns around Selma, Alabama. In 1962, Nash received a two-year sentence for encouraging young people in nonviolent direct action. She did not accept the plea deal and went to prison while four months pregnant. Ten days into her time, the judge reduced her sentence. Following the Civil Rights Movement, Nash actively protested the Vietnam War continuing in her peaceful protests. Nash remains in Chicago working as an educator and supporter of women’s rights and tenant welfare rights.
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In this lesson, students will examine what factors influenced the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Black Panther Party and what impact the two organizations had on the movement for Black liberation.
Learn how students were the driving force behind much of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s through music, interviews, and more.
In this lesson, students will examine what factors influenced the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Black Panther Party and what impact the two organizations had on the movement for Black liberation.
