Arkansas Business, November 15th, 1999
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 one of the most memorable events in American history took place: the integration of Little Rock's Central High School in 1957.
Mrs. Bates showed remarkable courage and leadership in allowing the nine black students to gather at her home to figure out ways to make it through each day. Doing so put her own life and that of her family in danger from radical...
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