🎯 86 Years Old, Still Alive—Civil Rights Hero You Never Heard Of 📝 Diane Nash (born May 15, 1938, age 86, STILL ALIVE): Led Nashville sit-ins (1960)—first successful lunch counter desegregation in America. Co-founded Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). When Freedom Ride bus firebombed Alabama (1961), age 23, she refused to stop. Recruited new riders, coordinated routes, kept movement alive. Created "Jail No Bail" strategy—refused bail to draw attention. Martin Luther King Jr. cal

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“African American women were largely invisible to the general public during the Civil Rights Movement, yet they comprised the backbone of the struggle. Many were grassroots organizers and leaders, two of whom are profiled here. Diane Nash co-founded SNCC, coordinated the Freedom Rides and started, with James Bevel, the Selma campaign. Arrested many times, when told the Freedom Rides would end due to violence, she said, "We can't let them stop us with violence. If we do, the movement is dead." An