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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... writing her memoir, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, are still a bit of a mystery but less so because of the assistance of Barrie Olson, a delightful New Yorker who helped research this period. Helping to fill in the gaps of Bates's New ...
... writes that the march program by “mid-August called for Randolph to introduce five black women to the assembled crowd: Rosa Parks, Mrs. Medgar Evers, Daisy Bates, Cambridge, Maryland leader Gloria Richardson and SNCC's Diane Nash Bevell ...
... writes , “ Coretta Scott King's relation to Martin Luther King , Jr. , before and after his death , tells a powerful story of gender and race . It illuminates the sexist character of black culture and the movement in general , revealing ...
... writer. It will become clear that this effort was a matter of close collab- oration, but that will be part of their story. Finally, it must be said that a number of persons who knew Daisy and L. C. chose not to speak to me about them ...
... writing her memoir , Bates had told this story at least once earlier , in a 1957 interview , and it sounds plausible ... writes , “ Why had we not fought back , I asked my mother , and the fear that was in her made her slap me into ...
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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 |