Daisy Bates : civil rights crusader from Arkansas /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2005
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 as a historical figure has been overlooked by scholars of the civil rights movement. Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas chroni. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 340 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-334) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781429460552 1429460555 9781604730678 1604730676 9786612555589 6612555580 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
