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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... Long Shadow of Little Rock 247 18. Mitchellville—Self-Help or Monument? 259 19. Fighting Over a Legend 280 Notes 298 Index 335 This page intentionally left blank ACKNOWLEDGMENTS During the research phase -vii- Contents.
... Long Shadow of Little Rock, are still a bit of a mystery but less so because of the assistance of Barrie Olson, a delightful New Yorker who helped research this period. Helping to fill in the gaps of Bates's New York interlude, Audre ...
... Long Shadow of Little Rock, by the New York publisher David McKay Company. The book would go on to receive respectful reviews in the New York Times and Washington Post and several other national publications. Yet there has been no adult ...
... Long Shadow of Little Rock, admitted that her choice of a mate was influenced by him. “At times,” she wrote, “looking back, I have questioned my reasons for marrying L. C., and his marrying me, for I must have seemed to him very ...
... Long Shadow of Little Rock that her cousin Early B. told her that she looked like her mother, who was “very pretty, dark brown, with long black hair.” As a young woman, Bates was stunningly lovely. In dark pants and a white blouse, she ...
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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 |