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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