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Diane Nash:
Raised in Chicago, Diane Nash was stunned by "whites only" signs she saw when she enrolled at Fisk University in Nashville. She decided to take action against segregation. Nash studied nonviolence techniques and helped organize the Nashville sit-ins at age 21, fearlessly challenging the city's leaders to end segregation. A founder of SNCC, she was one of the few women to play a formal leadership role in the organization. |