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.
Torn or Detached Nail Facts. 1  Fingernails and toenails, like hair, are composed of protein and fat and are not live tissue. 2  Nails grow a bit more than one-tenth of an inch per month and require three to six months to completely regrow. (Toenails grow more slowly than fingernails.) Nails are produced by the nail matrix cells that reside in the moon shaped whitish area (lunula) at the base of the nail.