Chicago native and Freedom Riders civil rights activist Diane Nash received a Presidential Medal of Freedom Thursday.
CHICAGO -- Chicago native and civil rights activist Diane Nash received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden Thursday.READ MORE: Simone Biles, Megan Rapinoe, Denzel Washington among 17 awarded Medal of Freedom
"She organized freedom rides. She was the organizer of freedom rides and that was monumental," he said."Nashville was the first city, the first major city in the south to desegregate and it was really because of Diane Nash." "The first time was when she confronted the mayor of Nashville on the steps of city hall and asked him point blank did he think it was right for the stores to discriminate against them solely on the base of race," Cooper said."And he had to say as a man morally that he couldn't say that it was right."
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