Sunny Nash

Sunny Nash, a leading author on U.S. race relations, is author of 'Bigmama Didn't Shop At Woolworth's,' chosen by the Association of American University Presses as essential for understanding U.S. race relations, listed in the Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies by the Schomburg in New York and recommended for Native American collections by the Miami-Dade Public Library System in Florida. Nash has work in the African American National Biography by Harvard and Oxford; African American West, Century of Short Stories; Reflections in Black, History of Black Photographers 1840 - Present; Ancestry; Companion to Southern Literature; Texas Through Women's Eyes; Southwestern American Literature Journal; The Source: guidebook to American genealogy; Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics; and others. "My book, 'Bigmama Didn't Shop At Woolworth's,' began in the 1990s. I was writing for Hearst and Knight-Ridder newspapers. The stories were from my childhood in the Jim Crow South with my part-Comanche grandmother, Bigmama, my parents, relatives, friends, and others. A managing editor at Texas A&M University Press, Mary Lenn Dixon, saw the merit in compiling these stories into a book and approached me about creating a manuscript of selected articles for review and eventual publication. What a break! I agreed. And the book was born." Nash said. Robin Fruble of Southern California said, "Every white person in America should read this book! Sunny Nash writes the story of her childhood without preaching or ranting but she made me realize for the first time just how much skin color changes how one experiences the world. But if your skin color is brown, it matters a great deal to a great number of people. I needed to learn that. Sunny Nash is a great teacher," Fruble said.

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Sunny Nash - Race Relations in America: Rosa Parks, Montgomery Bus Boycott & Freedom Riders

Before Rosa Parks, Jim Crow controlled travel on buses, trains and roadways in the American South. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Freedom Riders changed all that.

“There is amazing power in unity,” Martin Luther King said of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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Sunny Nash - Race Relations in America: Jim Crow, Eleanor Roosevelt, Marian Anderson & the Lincoln Memorial

Civil Rights Path Forged in 1939 by Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson

Until her death in 1962, Eleanor Roosevelt was a dedicated supporter of civil rights. Her social activism dates back to the 1939 Marian Anderson and DAR controversy over the use of Constitution Hall in Washington DC, the establishment of the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II and support of the peaceful protest doctrine of Martin Luther King.

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(via Sunny Nash Wins Endowment Award in History)

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A Texas town, College Station, celebrates its 75th birthday with the recognition of the American American experience.

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Ernest McBride Documentary by Sunny Nash (by Sunny Nash)

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Tuskegee Airmen, Jim Crow Laws and Black Pilots

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first black pilots, trained by the United States armed forces, fought successfully in WWII, in spite of Jim row laws, and opened dialogue for the modern Civil Rights Movement..

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I wanted to be a twig like the 1960s fashion model, Twiggy, but my mother kept an eye on our weight, not obsessively, but regularly. If I started to look thick, she said something. If I started to look too thin, she said something. When Twiggy made her debut, my mother was appalled at the unhealthy "toothpick frame" of the little  ragamuffin. "That skinny girl can wear her dress as short as she wants," my mother said. "Because she is so skinny she looks as if there is nothing under there worth hiding."

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1960s, Fashion, Civil Rights & Jim Crow

Cassini became an international star in the 1960s when he became the designer for First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. “We are on the threshold of a new American elegance, thanks to Mrs. Kennedy’s beauty, naturalness, understatement, exposure and symbolism,” Cassini said when he was appointed by the White House to be the First Lady’s couturier. 

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Soul music was emerging when Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King led the Montgomery Bus Boycott in the mid-1950s; and took on a theme of freedom at all costs throughout the Civil Rights Movement and the turbulent and dangerous the 1960s. 

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Build Brand Video (by Sunny Nash)

CJ Latimore illustrates how to build brand with products he creates for events, ceremonies and awards.

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What impact do you think social media would have had on the actions of Rosa Parks, “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” before the Montgomery Bus Boycott to fight Jim Crow laws? 

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Autrilla Scott & A Place Called Hope (by Sunny Nash)

Autrilla Scott was a perfect example of what a woman can accomplish. She had it all--a family, career, creativity, activism and humanitarianism. 

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Rosa Parks challenged Jim Crow laws, igniting the Montgomery Bus Boycott; became Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, launched Martin Luther King as leader of the Civil Rights Movement and set the tone for the Woolworth's sit-ins and other nonviolent protests.

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Rosa Parks was a woman of great strength, quiet dignity and extreme self control. She had been involved in the civil rights struggle against Jim Crow laws for many years before she sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 

Rosa Parks and E.B. Nixon, NAACP President, 1950s, after Montgomery Bus Boycott