Diane Nash is a shero to anyone familiar with her extraordinary life and work. Nash, an architect of Freedom Summer, while she was a student at Fisk University was also on the ground in Selma, Alabama more than 50 years ago.

From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives—and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment—for traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws, the Freedom Riders met with bitter racism and mob violence.