EVENT INFORMATION

17
Mei
1961

Nashville activists resume the Freedom Rides

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Student activists from Nashville resumed the rides after violence threatened to end the campaign. Diane Nash helped coordinate their continuation. The decision demonstrated that organized local networks could sustain national action and prevent mob attacks from determining whether a challenge to segregation would continue.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Diane Nash

John Lewis

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Nashville Student Movement

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee