Love Is Loud: How Diane Nash Led the Civil Rights Movement -- Sandra Neil Wallace, Hardcover

Meet Diane Nash, a civil rights leader who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, in this illuminating nonfiction picture book that "highlights major moments in Nash's life" (The Horn Book, starred review).

Diane grew up in the southside of Chicago in the 1940s. As a university student, she visited the Tennessee State Fair in 1959. Shocked to see a bathroom sign that read For Colored Women, Diane learned that segregation in the South went beyond schools--it was part of daily life. She decided to fight back, not with anger or violence, but with strong words of truth and action.

Finding a group of like-minded students, including student preacher John Lewis, Diane took command of the Nashville Movement. They sat at the lunch counters where only white people were allowed and got arrested, day after day. Leading thousands of marchers to the courthouse, Diane convinced the mayor to integrate lunch counters. Then, she took on the Freedom Rides to integrate bus travel, garnering support from Martin Luther King Jr. and then the president himself--John F. Kennedy.

Author: Sandra Neil Wallace
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Published: 01/10/2023
Pages: 48
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 11.20h x 9.30w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781534451032
Audience: Ages 9-12

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/01/2022 pg. 118
Publishers Weekly 12/19/2022
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2023
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 02/01/2023