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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... moved , “ paradoxically , ” she continued to maintain “ many old- school customs , such as always serving men their dinner first . ” 8 Old habits are hard to break . Rosa Parks was hardly the only woman to find it difficult to confront ...
... 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 pos- sibly because of his homely features . Though only five feet eleven and 140 ...
... moved to Memphis and “travelled a nine-state area” as a salesman.7 Daisy Bates wrote in The Long Shadow of Little Rock that she met L. C. when she was fifteen, which would have been 1928. He sold her father an insurance policy, and the ...
... moved to Little Rock in 1941 to work as a secretary for L. C. at the State Press . L. C.'s parents were also living in Memphis when Neely made these visits.10 Though L. C. told the graduate student that he was divorced from Kassandra in ...
... moved its offices to 610 W. Ninth Street , and the paper was printed by Keith Printing Company , a white - owned company . After the owner objected to the content of an edition and refused to print it , L. C. moved the contract to the ...
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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 |