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Civil rights strategist Diane Nash was a chairperson and leader of the campaign to end racially segregated lunch counters in downtown Nashville, Tennessee–a campaign now known as the Nashville sit-ins, which lasted from February 13 to May 10, 1960. Nash led a group of young students to sit-in at segregated lunch counters in nonviolent protest. Due to her leadership role, she recalls being targeted by local young white man and she says of that experience: “I just became overcome with fear” but she explains how she did not let the fear stop her from successfully leading the civil rights campaign and the city eventually desegregated its lunch counters.
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