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Also Known As Diane Judith Nash
Born May 15, 1938 (age 88) • Chicago • Illinois
Awards And Honors Presidential Medal of Freedom (2022)
Role In American civil rights movement • Freedom Rides • sit-in movement

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James Lawson
James Lawson
American minister and civil rights activist
Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth stands in a suit outside the heavily damaged remains of his house after a bombing, with collapsed roof and debris behind him, Montgomery, Alabama.
Fred Shuttlesworth
American minister and civil rights activist
Ella Baker
Ella Baker
American activist
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Rubye Robinson
American civil rights activist
John Lewis
John Lewis
American civil rights leader and politician
Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin
American civil rights activist
Hooks, 1991
Benjamin L. Hooks
American jurist, minister, and government official
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American civil rights activist and religious leader
Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael
West-Indian-born civil rights activist
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James Luther Bevel
American minister and political activist
Confident, compassionate, controversial
Jesse Jackson
American civil rights leader
James Farmer
James Farmer
American civil rights activist
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Bernice Johnson Reagon
American musician and historian
Septima Poinsette Clark
Septima Poinsette Clark
American educator and civil rights advocate
Hosea Williams
Hosea Williams
American civil rights leader and politician
Bond, Julian
Julian Bond
American politician and civil rights leader
Andrew Young
Andrew Young
American politician, civil rights leader, and clergyman
Ralph David Abernathy
Ralph David Abernathy
American pastor and civil rights leader
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Anne Moody
American civil rights activist
Barry, Marion
Marion Barry
American civil rights activist and politician

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