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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... women in 1963 were not ready to seriously challenge the unvarnished sexism displayed by black males, which mirrored the sexism in white society.6 Granted, years later they would complain bitterly about their lack of -4- Introduction.
Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas Grif Stockley. years later they would complain bitterly about their lack of meaningful participation at the afternoon program. In his biography of Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat on a ...
... later, hundreds of black sharecroppers were murdered in and near Elaine during a rampage by whites. Black sharecroppers in the area had organized a union to attempt to deal with the white planters who routinely cheated them at ...
... later moved to Memphis. When she grew up and got a little older, she looked a little better.”1 It always got a laugh because of her obvious beauty and possibly because of his homely features. Though only five feet eleven and 140 pounds ...
... 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 Alcorn College to get his secondary schooling. His father then paid for him to ...
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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 |