Daisy Bates : civil rights crusader from Arkansas / Grif Stockley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stockley, Grif.

Series:

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bates, Daisy.

Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.).

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.

Civil rights movements--Arkansas--Little Rock--History.

Civil rights movements.

School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock--History.

School integration.

Little Rock (Ark.)--Biography.

Little Rock (Ark.).

Little Rock (Ark.)--Race relations.

Arkansas--Race relations.

Arkansas.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.

Summary:

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. Grif Stockley is a staff attorney of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas. He is the author of several books, including Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Race Massacres of 1919 , Blind Judgment , Probable Cause , and Expert Testimony . He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Contents:

Cover page

Title Page

Copyright Page

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Dedication

INTRODUCTION

Chapter One A LITTLE GIRL FROM HUTTIG

Chapter Two A MUCH OLDER MAN

Chapter Three A NEWSPAPER ALL THEIR OWN

Chapter Four TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE

Chapter Five AN UNWAVERING COMMITMENT

Chapter Six THE BOMBSHELL OF BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION

Chapter Seven A FOOT IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE DOOR

Chapter Eight TWO STEPS BACK

Chapter Nine FRONT AND CENTER

Chapter Ten WHO IS THAT WOMAN IN LITTLE ROCK?

Chapter Eleven A BATTLE EVERY DAY

Chapter Twelve WOMAN OF THE YEAR

Chapter Thirteen HOLDING THE LINE

Chapter fourteen COPING WITH DEFEAT

Chapter fifteen THE NEW YORK YEARS

Chapter Sixteen GOING IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS

Chapter Seventeen THE LONG SHADOW OF LITTLE ROCK

Chapter Eighteen MITCHELLVILLE-SELF-HELP OR MONUMENT?

Chapter Nineteen FIGHTING OVER A LEGEND

NOTES

INDEX.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-334) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-55558-8

9786612555589

1-60473-067-6

1-4294-6055-5