Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from ArkansasUniv. Press of Mississippi, 18 сент. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 352 Daisy Bates (1914-1999) is renowned as the mentor of the Little Rock Nine, the first African Americans to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. For guiding the Nine through one of the most tumultuous civil rights crises of the 1950s, she was selected as Woman of the Year in Education by the Associated Press in 1957 and was the only woman invited to speak at the Lincoln Memorial ceremony in the March on Washington in 1963. But her importance as a historical figure has been overlooked by scholars of the civil rights movement. Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas chronicles her life and political advocacy before, during, and well after the Central High School crisis. An orphan from the Arkansas mill town of Huttig, she eventually rose to the zenith of civil rights action. In 1952, she was elected president of the NAACP in Arkansas and traveled the country speaking on political issues. During the 1960s, she worked as a field organizer for presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson to get out the black vote. Even after a series of strokes, she continued to orchestrate self-help and economic initiatives in Arkansas. Using interviews, archival records, contemporary news-paper accounts, and other materials, author Grif Stockley reconstructs Bates's life and career, revealing her to be a complex, contrary leader of the civil rights movement. Ultimately, Daisy Bates paints a vivid portrait of an ardent, overlooked advocate of social justice. |
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... according to Thomas Gentile, “ultimately Daisy Bates was permitted to say a few words.”15 Gentile does not tell us who made the decision to allow Bates to speak.16 Her complete speech and the full text of what she and many others not as ...
... According to the Arkansas Gazette , “ On one occasion , Mrs. Bates corrected Catlett on his pronunciation of Negro . It was a quick interjection and passed without comment , but Catlett changed his pronunciation of the word thereafter ...
... according to her , that didn't happen . A black child wouldn't have had to wait . “ I don't think there was any discrimination , ” she , rather amazingly , insisted.4 This is not to say there were not exceptions to the racial etiquette ...
... According to the census, Broughton was only two at the time, and Daisy by then was seventeen and soon about to leave Huttig forever. His stories are thus secondhand from his aunt Susie. Broughton claims he was told that Daisy's mother ...
... according to Broughton , Bates had gotten along well with her foster mother . Bates writes that Orlee Smith died when she was in her “ teens . ” The 1930 census shows that he was head of the household in that year . Apparently , he died ...
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3 A Newspaper All Their Own | 32 |
4 Two for the Price of One | 43 |
5 An Unwavering Commitment | 53 |
6 The Bombshell of Brown v Board of Education | 65 |
7 A Foot in the Schoolhouse Door | 83 |
12 Woman of the Year | 160 |
13 Holding the Line | 173 |
14 Coping with Defeat | 191 |
15 The New York Years | 210 |
16 Going in Different Directions | 233 |
17 The Long Shadow of Little Rock | 247 |
18 MitchellvilleSelfHelp or Monument? | 259 |
19 Fighting Over a Legend | 280 |
8 Two Steps Back | 93 |
9 Front and Center | 112 |
10 Who Is That Woman in Little Rock? | 131 |
11 A Battle Every Day | 148 |
Notes | 298 |
Index | 335 |