2 options
Daisy Bates : civil rights crusader from Arkansas / Grif Stockley.
LIBRA F419.L7 S76 2005
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stockley, Grif.
- Series:
- Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bates, Daisy.
- African American women civil rights workers--Arkansas--Little Rock--Biography.
- African American women civil rights workers.
- African Americans--Arkansas--Little Rock--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights workers--Arkansas--Little Rock--Biography.
- Civil rights workers.
- Race relations.
- School integration.
- History.
- Civil rights movements.
- Little Rock (Ark.)--Biography.
- Little Rock (Ark.).
- Civil rights movements--Arkansas--Little Rock--History.
- School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock--History.
- Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.).
- Little Rock (Ark.)--Race relations.
- Arkansas--Race relations.
- Arkansas.
- Arkansas--Little Rock.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
- Contents:
- 1 A Little Girl from Huttig 13
- 2 A Much Older Man 22
- 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
- 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
- 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 Mitchellville-Self-Help or Monument? 259
- 19 Fighting Over a Legend 280.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-334) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1578068010
- OCLC:
- 59403468
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.