http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-freedom-awards-gore,1,2786266.storyAl Gore, Diane Nash accept Freedom Awards from National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn.
By Associated Press
2:28 PM PDT, October 28, 2008
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) _ Former Vice President Al Gore saluted civil rights pioneer Diane Nash on Tuesday, and likened his current cause of reversing global warming's effects to her efforts to foster nonviolent change during the Civil Rights Movement.
Gore, Nash and blues legend B.B. King were honored by the National Civil Rights Museum with its annual Freedom Award. Gore and Nash appeared at a public forum at a downtown Memphis church, attended mostly by area students.
Gore, who split his youth between Washington, D.C., and Carthage, Tenn., remembered when Nash and other Fisk University students peacefully protested to desegregate Nashville lunch counters. Nash later organized Freedom Rides throughout the South and helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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Nash said she learned during her nonviolence training that unjust political systems and ignorant attitudes are the enemies — but never people.
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