🎯 86 Years Old, Still Alive—Civil Rights Hero You Never Heard Of 📝 Diane Nash (born May 15, 1938, age 86, STILL ALIVE): Led Nashville sit-ins (1960)—first successful lunch counter desegregation in America. Co-founded Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). When Freedom Ride bus firebombed Alabama (1961), age 23, she refused to stop. Recruited new riders, coordinated routes, kept movement alive. Created "Jail No Bail" strategy—refused bail to draw attention. Martin Luther King Jr. cal