Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas

by Grif Stockley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617037249
• ISBN13: 9781617037245
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"