How Women are Shaping the Gun Control Debate

with Esther Armah of WBAI

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Diane Nash: Civil Rights and Women's Rights

Makers

Diane Nash talks about the Civil Rights Movement's connection to the women's movement and how The Feminine Mystique affected her.

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Diane Nash, a Chicago native, first became actively involved with the Civil Rights Movement in 1959, when she enrolled in Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and came face to face with the pervasive segregation of the Jim Crow South for the first time in her life.  Her unyielding determination and courageousness, coupled with her “flawless instincts,” quickly made her one of the most respected leaders of the sit-in movement in Nashville. Nash's early efforts included orchestrating the first successful civil rights campaign to de-segregate lunch counters, as well as helping to found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a group that became one of the most influential during the Civil Rights Movement. 

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The Fresh Outlook: Misrepresentation of Minorities and Women in Hollywood

James Braxton Peterson joins The Fresh Outlook panel in a discussion of the misrepresentations of minorities and women in Hollywood.

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