Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.
In this situation, providing there has been no permanent damage to the nail bed, the nail usually grows back over 6-9 months. ADVERTISEMENT - CONTINUE READING BELOW. The old nail has been giving shelter to the new one in its early stages of growth and the sequence of events that you describe is perfectly natural.
Fingernail Info Fingernail Info Nails grow at different rates due to age, nutrition, and health factors. Under the best of conditions, a nail grows about .004 inches a day or 1/8 of an inch each month. It takes about six months for a new nail to grow from cuticle to tip.