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. |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 5 из 45
... mother of the composer William Grant Still , Carrie Sheppherdson , who was given a national award by the NAACP in 1925 for her fund - raising activities . Women , as historian John Kirk has noted , in many ways had been the backbone of ...
... mother , who was ill , sent her to the meat market to buy pork chops for dinner . The butcher who eventually waited on Bates humiliated her when she showed signs of impatience . “ Niggers have to wait ' til I wait on the white people ...
... mother , and the fear that was in her made her slap me into silence . ” 7 Arkansas , black children learned , was a dangerous place , like the rest of the South . Just three years later , hundreds of black sharecrop- pers were murdered ...
... mother . ” Then , one day while at the commissary , Bates , who was told all her life she was the spit- ting image of her mother , locked eyes with a young white man . By the way he stared at her , she knew he was one of her mother's ...
... mother was raped and killed by two men and her body thrown into a “forty-acre pond” near where the Smiths lived. However, an interview with Broughton's sister, Tommie, who was ten in 1930, did not confirm this account. She only ...
Содержание
3 | |
13 | |
22 | |
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 |