Family Life
Nash and James Bevel had two children, Sherri and Douglass. In 1968, Bevel and Nash divorced, and she slowed down her activist activities to raise her two children as a single mother. However, she still advocated social justice for the impoverished and the homeless. Nash later worked in fair housing advocacy and real estate, and as an educator and lecturer.
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