1863-1951 Irish anthropologist who studied Aborigines. Bates married an Australian cattleman in 1885. Discontented, she moved to Great Britain, where she read allegations that white Australians abused indigenous peoples. Bates returned to Australia in...

Daisy Bates Born October 16, 1859, Tipperary County, Ireland Died April 18, 1951, Adelaide, South Australia Before the arrival of British settlers in Australia, its native inhabitants—the Aborigines—led a simple existence. They wandered from...

Daisy May Bates (nee Dwyer) (16 October 1859 – 18 April 1951) was an Irish-Australian journalist, welfare worker and lifelong student of Australian Aboriginal culture and society. She was known among the native people as 'Kabbarli' (grandmother)....

ON NOVEMBER 4, 1999, ARKANSAS and America lost a freedom fighter when Daisy Bates died at the age of eighty-four.1 Fortunately, Daisy Bates's efforts for justice and equality had received the recognition they deserved during her lifetime. She was praised by Eleanor Roosevelt, commended...

An Arkansas Heroine WITH THE DEATH OF CIVIL rights champion Daisy Bates, Arkansas lost one of its giants. It was on Mrs. Bates' watch as president of the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that...

National Park Service Ranger Spirit Trickey feels a special connection when directing tourists down the sidewalk to Little Rock Central High School. Her mother made the same journey 50 years ago as one of nine black students integrating the previously all-white school."I always want people...