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Diane Judith Nash is an American civil rights activist, and a leader and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement.

Nash was born in 1938 and raised in Chicago. After finishing Hyde Park High School in Chicago, Diane Nash went to Washington, D.C., to attend Howard University. She then went on to major in English at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Nash's campaigns included the first successful civil rights action to integrate lunch counters in Nashville.

She is co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

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