Daisy Bates was a Civil Rights Activist and Journalist who was instrumental in the Little Rock Incident. Daisy and her husband, L.C. Bates, started up their own newspaper, the first issue appearing on May 9th, 1941.
Some Interesting Facts
* An elementary school in Little Rock, Arkansas, was named in her honor.
* Her memoir, "The Long Shadow of Little Rock", won a National Book Award in 1988.
* She was an adviser to the "Little Rock Nine", nine African-American students who became famous after attempting to go to Central High School (an all Caucasian school) in Little Rock, Arkansas.
* The Newspaper started by Bates and her husband was called "The Arkansas State Press"
* Due to the desegregation and racism to follow, "The Arkansas Sate Press" was forced to close as a result of financial loss.
* During the struggle to desegregate Central High School a rock was thrown into the Bates' home with a note attached "Stone this time. Dynamite next."
Some Quotes from Daisy Bates
- "The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does."
- "No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies."
- "Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any."
- "From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it."
- "What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion."
- "Jailing our youth will not solve the problem in Little Rock."
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