Daisy Bates was a civil rights activist, journalist, and lecturer who played a major role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957.
Daisy Bates 1914 – 1999
Daisy Bates was a civil rights activist, journalist, and lecturer who played a major role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957. Affectionately called the “First Lady of Little Rock,” Bates was a feminist before the term was made known. She was smart, attractive, and outspoken, and she refused to stand by and accept the stereotypical role women were assigned. Daisy Bates played a crucial role in the fight against racial segregation. She documented the battle to end segregation in Arkansas in her book, The Long Shadow of Little Rock.
This is a Hypertext Book Release of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic This Side of Paradise on Black April 23, 2016 which is William Shakespeare,s 400th birthday.
Experience the early 20th century in Michigan's Upper Peninsula through the artistic camera lens of J.W. Nara, one of the Copper Country's earliest professional photographers. This collection of historic photos brings the "Copper Boom" era back to li
