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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... Daisy Bates wanted to be written about, there is a good deal of her story that will not be told here and will have to await further exploration. Daisy and L. C. intentionally covered their early tracks too well, at least for this writer ...
Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas Grif Stockley. Chapter Two. A. MUCH. OLDER. MAN. After. Daisy had become famous, L. C. would tell the same sly, understated story, saying that when he had first met her, “She was nothing but a kid—I wasn' ...
... L. C. attended a private grammar school in which he was the only black student. He later attended a black school in Indianola.3 It was not unusual at that time for black colleges to offer high school credit, and his father sent him to ...
... L. C. was still married to Kassandra and didn't marry Daisy until 1942, a year after they had begun the State Press in Little Rock. According to Clifford Broughton, Daisy left Huttig with L. C. before her father died. Daisy and L. C. ...
... L. C., who was a family friend. In fact, Daisy was nineteen in 1934. On the second page of a letter L. C. wrote to Daisy in 1962, he refers to the time when he “met you and brought you away.” In the next paragraph he writes, “I knew I ...
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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 |