Daisy Bates (activist) - Wikipedia
Daisy Bates was born on November 11, 1914, to her father Hezekiah Gatson, and her mother Millie Riley. She grew up in southern Arkansas in the small sawmill town of Huttig. Hezekiah Gatson support… See more
Daisy Bates | Biography & Facts | Britannica
3 days ago · After the U.S. Supreme Court deemed segregation unconstitutional in 1954, she led the NAACP’s protest against the Little Rock school board’s plan for slow integration of the public schools and pressed instead for immediate …
Daisy Bates - Little Rock Nine, Accomplishments
Apr 2, 2014 · Daisy Bates was an African American civil rights activist and newspaper publisher who documented the battle to end segregation in Arkansas.
Daisy Bates - National Women's History Museum
For her work, the state of Arkansas proclaimed the third Monday in February, Daisy Gatson Bates Day. She was posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom in 1999. In 2024, a statue of Bates was added to the U.S. Capitol.
Remembering Daisy Bates: Orator at the March on …
Aug 28, 2019 · Daisy Bates boldly challenged racism in Arkansas during Jim Crow. She played a key part in the Little Rock Nine’s fight against school segregation.
Little Rock Nine - National Women's History Museum
Daisy Bates was the president of the Arkansas NAACP chapter. She was an expert organizer. Under Bates, the NAACP sued the Little Rock school board. Then she and her husband recruited nine students to integrate the all-white …
Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine - Teaching American History
Sep 3, 2024 · For her crucial support for the Little Rock Nine, Arkansas has memorialized Daisy Bates in a statue recently unveiled at the U.S. Capitol.
Women Musicians Shined at the 1963 March on …
Aug 23, 2023 · Although her call mostly went unanswered, the committee did eventually agree to include a “Tribute to Negro Women.” Myrlie Evers, Medgar Evers’ widow, planned to give the speech. On the day of the event, Evers …
Bates, Daisy Lee Gatson - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
May 20, 2024 · In 1959, as a result of intimidation by news distributors and a boycott by white business owners who withheld advertising, the Bateses were forced to close the Arkansas State Press.
DAISY BATES AND THE LITTLE ROCK SCHOOL CRISIS Forging the Way CAROLYN CALLOWAY-THOMAS Indiana University THURMON GARNER University of Georgia The …
