Four starred reviews!
Meet Diane Nash, a civil rights leader who worked alongside Martin
Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, in this "poignant and powerful" (Kirkus
Reviews, starred review) nonfiction picture book that is "a stunning,
little-known story, and a welcome volume" (School Library Journal,
starred review) that "highlights major moments in Nash's life" (The
Horn Book, starred review).
Diane grew up in the southside of Chicago in the 1940s. As a university
student, she visited the Tennessee State Fair in 1959. Shocked to see a
bathroom sign that read For Colored Women, Diane learned that
segregation in the South went beyond schools--it was part of daily life.
She decided to fight back, not with anger or violence, but with strong
words of truth and action.
Finding a group of like-minded students, including student preacher John
Lewis, Diane took command of the Nashville Movement. They sat at the
lunch counters where only white people were allowed and got arrested,
day after day. Leading thousands of marchers to the courthouse, Diane
convinced the mayor to integrate lunch counters. Then, she took on the
Freedom Rides to integrate bus travel, garnering support from Martin
Luther King Jr. and then the president himself--John F. Kennedy.