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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... parents to stand up for her . “ It's fat , Mother . Let's take it [ the meat ] back . ” 5 Bates learned that night there was a line black people couldn't cross when her foster father , whom she adored , arrived home from his job at the ...
... parents were essen- tially helpless to deal with the injustices they faced . A more famous autobiographical description of this dilemma comes out of Arkansas in 1916 from Richard Wright . He was living in the Delta town of Elaine in ...
... boarders.12 Who Bates's parents were has remained a matter of a fierce but unresolved debate. A delayed birth certificate obtained in 1962 by her husband , L. C. Bates , gives the names of - 16 - A Little Girl from Huttig.
... parents as John Gatson and Millie Riley , both of whom were said by him to be living in Huttig at the time Bates was born.13 Thus far it has been impossible to confirm their identity or whether either was one of her biological parents ...
... parents is the appearance in Little Rock in the 1980s of a family who claimed and still insist that they are related to Bates. Though they played a significant role in Bates's last years and in her affairs after her death (including her ...
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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 |