Daisy Bates
Daisy Bates was the co-owner and editor of the Arkansas State Press, one of the most influential Black newspapers of the mid-twentieth century, and the president of the Arkansas NAACP. She organized and mentored the Little Rock Nine, the students who integrated Central High School in 1957 under the protection of federal troops sent by President Eisenhower. Her 1962 memoir The Long Shadow of Little Rock became a touchstone of the desegregation era and won an American Book Award.
“No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.”
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Daisy Bates
Daisy Bates was the co-owner and editor of the Arkansas State Press, one of the most influential Black newspapers of the mid-twentieth century, and the president of the Arkansas NAACP. She organized and mentored the Little Rock Nine, the students who integrated Central High School in 1957 under the protection of federal troops sent by President Eisenhower. Her 1962 memoir The Long Shadow of Little Rock became a touchstone of the desegregation era and won an American Book Award.
“No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.”
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