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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Diane_NashDiane Nash - Wikipedia

    Diane Judith Nash (born May 15, 1938) is an American civil rights activist, ... Nash and James Bevel committed to raising a nonviolent army in Alabama. Their goal was ...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › James_BevelJames Bevel - Wikipedia

    James Luther Bevel (October 19, 1936 – December 19, 2008) was an American minister and leader of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in the United States.As a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and then as its Director of Direct Action and Nonviolent Education, Bevel initiated, strategized, and developed SCLC's three major successes of the era: the 1963 Birmingham ...

    • James Luther Bevel, October 19, 1936, Itta Bena, Mississippi
    • Minister and civil rights activist, SCLC Director of Direct Action
  3. Diane Nash. May 15, 1938 –. Raised in Chicago, Illinois. Diane Nash in Louisville, Kentucky, February 1963, Carl and Anne Braden Papers, WHS. “Sherrod used to say, ‘If we could only find one person, the key is to find one more person other than yourself and then things will begin to roll.’. Diane Nash Bevel was responsible for the ...

  4. Jul 7, 2022 · The Ku Klux Klan attack killed four young Black girls, spurring Nash and her husband, fellow activist James Bevel, to begin laying the groundwork for the 1965 Selma march.

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  5. Jan 24, 2018 · Diane Nash is an acclaimed American civil rights activist. ... Nash married fellow activist James Bevel in 1961. The couple had two children, Sherri and Douglass.

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  7. Mar 8, 2018 · Musician and actor Harry Belafonte with Freedom Riders Diane Nash and Charles Jones, discussing the Freedom Riders movement, 1961. ... At the time, she was living with her husband, James Bevel, in ...

  8. That same year she married James Bevel, a fellow civil rights activist. The two moved to Jackson, Mississippi, where Nash was later convicted of contributing to the delinquency of minors for teaching them nonviolent tactics. Given a choice between paying a fine and jail time, Nash opted to serve her sentence despite being pregnant.

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