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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451736403321

Autore

Stockley Grif

Titolo

Daisy Bates [[electronic resource] ] : civil rights crusader from Arkansas / / Grif Stockley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2005

ISBN

1-282-55558-8

9786612555589

1-60473-067-6

1-4294-6055-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 p.)

Collana

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

Disciplina

323/.092

B

Soggetti

African American women civil rights workers - Arkansas - Little Rock

African Americans - Arkansas - Little Rock

Civil rights workers - Arkansas - Little Rock

Civil rights movements - Arkansas - Little Rock - History

School integration - Arkansas - Little Rock - History

Electronic books.

Little Rock (Ark.) Biography

Little Rock (Ark.) Race relations

Arkansas Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A Little Girl from Huttig; 2. A Much Older Man; 3. A Newspaper All Their Own; 4. Two for the Price of One; 5. An Unwavering Commitment; 6. The Bombshell of Brown v. Board of Education; 7. A Foot in the Schoolhouse Door; 8. Two Steps Back; 9. Front and Center; 10. Who Is That Woman in Little Rock?; 11. A Battle Every Day; 12. Woman of the Year; 13. Holding the Line; 14. Coping with Defeat; 15. The New York Years; 16. Going in Different Directions; 17. The Long Shadow of Little Rock; 18. Mitchellville-Self-Help or Monument?; 19. Fighting Over a Legend

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Sommario/riassunto

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 1950's, 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