A Moment Prepared for Her
On February 13, 1960, Diane Nash — a twenty-one-year-old Fisk University student from Chicago — walked into a downtown Nashville lunch counter with dozens of...
This is a contemporary on leadership and courage, drawing on Esther 4:14.
On February 13, 1960, Diane Nash — a twenty-one-year-old Fisk University student from Chicago — walked into a downtown Nashville lunch counter with dozens of fellow students and sat down. They were refused service. They stayed anyway. Nash had arrived in Nashville only months earlier, stunned by the rigid segregation she encountered. She joined nonviolence workshops led by Reverend James Lawson at Clark Memorial United Methodist Church, where students rehearsed being cursed, shoved, and burned with cigarettes — then responding with dignity.…
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