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IDA’S LIST DAY TWO DAISY BATES(November 11, 1914 – November 4, 1999) was an American civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957.
(November 11, 1914 – November 4, 1999) was an American civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957.
Daisy Bates was born in the southern part of Arkansas in a small town called hutting she was raised by her adopted parents orle and susie smith when she found out that she was adopted and her birth mother was sexually assaulted and murdered by a group of White men it started the fire of activism within her and made her want to do something about the overt racism in the south. On March 2 1942 she married Lucious Christopher Bates a insurance salesman and newspaper reporter shortly after, the bates moved to Little Rock Arkansas where they continued their activism by starting their own Newspaper the Arkansas State Press Daisy became a member of many prominent African American organization and soon ascended to lead the Arkansas Chapters of the NAACP as President. Through the Arkansas State Press and her work with the NAACP she encouraged the need for desegregation in Arkansas schools. In 1957 she helped to organize the Little Rock Nine the first nine African American students to integrate the all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957, Daisy organized everything from the court proceedings to let the children attend Central High School, Press Conferences, She even coerced President Dwight Eisenhower to send federal troops to protect the African American student from any bodily threats while they attended Central High because of her bravery and her impeccable community organizing she awarded woman of the year by the Associated Press. Later on she worked with the Democratic National Committee, she also worked under President Lyndon B Johnson administration working on anti-poverty programs. Daisy Bates influence of the Press and Community organizing was used by other women in the Feminist movement of the 1970's and is still used to this day." width="363" height="504" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; height: auto; max-width: 100%;">
Daisy Bates was born in the southern part of Arkansas in a small town called hutting she was raised by her adopted parents orle and susie smith when she found out that she was adopted and her birth mother was sexually assaulted and murdered by a group of White men it started the fire of activism within her and made her want to do something about the overt racism in the south. On March 2 1942 she married Lucious Christopher Bates a insurance salesman and newspaper reporter shortly after, the bates moved to Little Rock Arkansas where they continued their activism by starting their own Newspaper the Arkansas State Press Daisy became a member of many prominent African American organization and soon ascended to lead the Arkansas Chapters of the NAACP as President. Through the Arkansas State Press and her work with the NAACP she encouraged the need for desegregation in Arkansas schools. In 1957 she helped to organize the Little Rock Nine the first nine African American students to integrate the all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957, Daisy organized everything from the court proceedings to let the children attend Central High School, Press Conferences, She even coerced President Dwight Eisenhower to send federal troops to protect the African American student from any bodily threats while they attended Central High because of her bravery and her impeccable community organizing she awarded woman of the year by the Associated Press. Later on she worked with the Democratic National Committee, she also worked under President Lyndon B Johnson administration working on anti-poverty programs. Daisy Bates influence of the Press and Community organizing was used by other women in the Feminist movement of the 1970’s and i
