Among the 2016 National Women’s History Month honorees of the National Women’s History Project is Daisy Bates, a civil rights pioneer. Diversebooks.net is proud to offer two books that feature her. They are:
Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas, a biography chronicling her life and work for racial justice, by Grif Stockley, $31.50, (List price: $35), University of Mississippi Press, ISBN: 9781578068012, pp. 352.
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Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965, an anthology of speeches in which she is represented, edited by Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon, $45, (List price: $50), University of Mississippi Press, ISBN: 9781604731071, pp. 352.
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Daisy Gatson Bates (1914-1999) ran a weekly newspaper, the Arkansas State Press, with her husband, L.C. Bates, and served as president of the Arkansas State Conference of NAACP chapters.
However, she is best known for her role in the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. She advised and mentored the nine black students chosen to break the color barrier. Her home also served as a haven for black journalists from around the country who covered the events surrounding the integration when mobs tried to prevent the students’ entry.
