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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... thing that is reserved for my intimate friends and my husband . You will refrain from calling me Daisy . ” Without hesitating , Catlett shot back , “ I won't call you any- thing then . ” 21 For a black person to confront a white person ...
... things, claimed to sustain and give meaning to their subjugation of another people; blacks in their tortured effort to claim for themselves the respect whites have seldom given them. White supremacy presupposed a black hole of innate ...
... things we need to learn — raise what we need at home . ” There were no such reports in the Huttig News of “ colored gentle- men , ” which would have been a contradiction in terms . Instead , blacks were served up in the proverbial ...
... thing to my mother . ” Then , one day while at the commissary , Bates , who was told all her life she was the spit ... things white . At one point in a drunken stupor , the man pleaded with her , “ In the name of God , please leave me ...
... reserved . . . more mature . " 25 From the first issue of the State Press in 1941 until the last in 1959 , L. C. almost always had one thing on his mind , and that was the paper . Though Daisy , as her fame grew , - 27 - A Much Older Man.
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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 |