#dianenash

March is Women's History Month! To celebrate, we’re honoring the courage of those who insisted women have a voice at the ballot box.

Diane Nash organized the voting rights movement in Selma, including the famous Selma to Montgomery March we remember today. The march attracted national attention when demonstrators were beaten by law enforcement on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

We have such a beautiful & rich history & we literally come from such a strong lineage of classy, eloquence women who walked with integrity & dignity. I mean we come from queens, there is royalty running through our veins. This generation is definitely not a reflection of what those women stood for and doesn’t embody the lessons that those women taught us. I love history and to see how African- American women carried themselves back then as oppose to now, there is absolutely no comparison. I believe that so many of them would be so disappointed in us that we aren’t taking heed to the legacy and the principles that they have left us to follow and to pattern our lives after. They were absolutely beautiful with clothes on. They were respected without degrading themselves & commanded a room and nations without devaluing themselves for attention. I know that my generation as a whole can’t get back to the dignity and the integrity that those women had but I pray that more of us will be the examples that these young girls need to embody the dignity and class that those women had. #EllaBaker #DaisyBates #FannyLouHammer #LenaHorne #RubyDee #DianeNash #CorettaScottKing #BettyShabazz #MaryMcleodBethune #DorothyHeight #DorothyDandridge #MarianAnderson #JeanWynonaFleming

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We have such a beautiful & rich history & we literally come from such a strong lineage of classy, eloquence women who walked with integrity & dignity. I mean we come from queens, there is royalty running through our veins. This generation is definitely not a reflection of what those women stood for and doesn’t embody the lessons that those women taught us. I love history and to see…

.Diane Nash: Student Stands For What's Right

Not only was Diane Nash beautiful, but full of intellect, too. Known for being fearlessly bold, daring and courageous, she took on Civil Rights for equality without ever reconsidering. Raised in Chicago and attending college in the north, Nash never encountered segregation until transferring from Hampton University to Fisk University. Her first hand experiences in the south would later lead to…