Daisy bates

Daisy Bates was an author, activist, and champion for school integration. May her indelible impact on America's school system forever be remembered.

Daisy Bates was one of the civil-rights era’s most formidable forces.

We recall the legacy of Civil Rights leader Daisy Bates and her efforts to successfully integrate schools in Little Rock, Arkansas

It didn't end when Central High School was integrated.

October 25, 1958 Daisy Bates, head of the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP, and the nine students (The Little Rock Nine) who integrated Little Rock’s Central High School are awarded the Spingarn Medal for their courage and leadership in the civil rights struggle.

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Civil Rights advocate, NAACP President, Co-Publisher 'Arkansas State Press' and Mentor to the 'Little Rock Nine' teenager 1957. Born in Huttig, Arkansas, Mrs. Bates was orphaned at an early age and later learned her mother was killed by three white men, an action which prompted her father to flee town, but he too ended...

After having learned at 8 years old that her mother was brutally raped and murdered by three white men, Daisy Bates dedicated her life to fighting inequality. She was an American civil rights activist, journalist, lecturer, and a woman who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957. When she was just 15, Daisy met her future husband and settled in Little Rock, Arkansas where they started their own newspaper, The Arkansas Weekly. It was one of the only African…

Daisy Bates outside her home with four of the Little Rock Nine. The students are Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown, Melba Pattillo, and Thelma Mothershed.

There is strength in style and the civil-rights movement is a perfect example.