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in Gender in the Civil Rights Movement, ed. P.J. Ling and S. Monteith (Routledge, 2014) pp. 17–40. ISBN 0-8135-3438-0. Reed, Roy. Faubus: The Life and Times of an American Prodigal (University of Arkansas Press, 1997). ISBN 978-1557284570. Stockley, Grif. Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas (University Press of Mississippi, 2012).
Lucius Christopher Bates (April 27, 1904 – August 22, 1980) was an African-American civil rights activist and the husband of Daisy Bates. He founded the Arkansas State Press newspaper with his wife in 1941. He was an active member of the NAACP and was one of the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case Cooper v.
Bates's memoir, The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir, published in 1962, [20] chronicles her experiences as a civil rights activist during the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The book provides a firsthand account of the Little Rock Nine, a group of nine African American students who integrated the school in ...
She is a well-known civil rights figure in Arkansas, where a downtown street in the capital, Little Rock, is named in her honor. The state also marks Daisy Bates Day on Presidents Day.
Elizabeth Ann Eckford (born October 4, 1941) [1] is an American civil rights activist and one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, left, and Charles King, president of the Daisy Bates House Museum Foundation board, at the unveiling of a statue of civil rights leader Daisy Bates, of ...
In May 2011, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Arkansas, and in April 2012, he received the Silas Hunt Legacy Award. [4] In 1957, when Little Rock Central was integrated, Mercer served as an advisor to one of the nine black students, Daisy Bates. [5] [6] Mercer died November 20, 2012, at the age of 88. [7]
Terrence James Roberts (born December 3, 1941) is one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.