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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... town of Huttig in extreme southern Arkansas had little mystery about it in 1913 for black people, the year Bates was born. In those days Huttig was no different from any other Arkansas town in its absolute commitment to white supremacy ...
... town of Elaine in Phillips County, less than a hundred miles to the northeast. When his uncle was murdered by white men for refusing to sell them his drinking establishment, Wright, then a child, writes, “Why had we not fought back, I ...
... town. Nobody has heard from him since.”14 Bates wrote that she essentially confirmed this story with her foster father, who told her, “There was some talk about who they were, but no one knew for sure, and the sheriff's office did ...
... town where the whites resided, there were “white bungalows, white steepled churches and a white spacious school with a big lawn.”31 According to Clifford Broughton, Bates's home at 75 A Avenue in Huttig was destroyed by fire, but today ...
... town called New Edinburg, north of Huttig. He claims to remember visiting it in the summers with Bates. However easy or hard Bates's life had been in Huttig, it would change dramatically after she met L. C. (Lucious Christopher) Bates ...
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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 |