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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... Smith. Because her name was not changed, it is unlikely she was formally adopted. Others at 75 A Avenue in Huttig included Orlee's wife, Susie; a seventeen-year-old stepdaughter; and two boarders.12 Who Bates's parents were has remained ...
... killed by white men is often repeated . Clifford Broughton was a nephew of Susie Smith's and in 2002 was the keeper of the Daisy Bates legend in Huttig. Broughton said that he and his family lived with - 17 - A Little Girl from Huttig.
... Smiths and Daisy at one point in his life, which is confirmed by the 1930 cen- sus. 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 ...
... Smith's role in her formative years , Bates , in an early draft of The Long Shadow of Little Rock , admitted that her choice of a mate was influenced by him . “ At times , ” she wrote , “ look- ing back , I have questioned my reasons ...
... 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 within the next two years . Another Huttig resident , Ethel Smith , in her eighties , remembered ...
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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 |