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	Daisy Bates (civil rights activist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Daisy Bates was born on November 11, 1914 in Huttig, Union County, Arkansas.
		In 1952 Daisy Bates was elected president of the Arkansas State Conference of NAACP branches.
		Bates and her husband L.C. Bates were important figures in the Little Rock Integration Crisis in 1957.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daisy_Bates_(US) (447 words)

	Daisy Bates
		Daisy Bates is best known for her involvement in the struggle to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
		The incident had a strong impact on young Daisy, but her rage at discrimination turned to horror when she learned, somewhat later, that the parents she had known all her life were in reality friends of her real parents; her mother, it turned out, had been murdered while resisting rape by three white men.
		Bates noted in her book that brutality against returning soldiers was a great motivator in the growth of the civil rights movement, and that membership in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) grew radically during this period.
	www.edwardsly.com /batesd.htm (1879 words)

	Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville: DAISY BATES PAPERS
		Bates; the correspondence of her husband, L. Bates from 1960 to 1974; correspondence, grant proposals, partial financial records and other materials relating to the Mitchellville OEO Self-Help Project, 1968-1980; memorabilia, honors and awards, photographs and newspaper clippings; and audio tape and film.
		Daisy Bates with LBJ at the White House, April 9, 1964.
		Bates is surrounded by the various leaders of the marching units that paraded in her honor throughout the local community.
	libinfo.uark.edu /SpecialCollections/findingaids/batesaid/batesaid.html (4798 words)

	Who is Daisy Bates?
		Daisy Bates is synonymous with segregation and the fight against legal and social obstacles to educational opportunity for African-American youth.
		Daisy Lee Gaston Bates was born in Huttig, Arkansas in 1920 and reared by adoptive parents Orlee and Susie Smith.
		Bates said of her father's message, "He had passed on to me a priceless heritage--one that was to sustain me throughout the years to come.
	ut.essortment.com /whoisdaisybat_ogp.htm (1181 words)

	We Shall Overcome -- Daisy Bates House
		The Daisy Bates House, a National Historic Landmark, was the de facto command post for the Central High School desegregation crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas.
		Bates combined her public roles as the state NAACP president and co-publisher (with her husband) of the Arkansas State Press to become a mentor to the nine teenagers (now known as the Little Rock Nine) who ultimately desegregated Central High School.
		Bates and the Little Rock Nine during these turbulent years sent a strong message throughout the South that desegregation worked and the tradition of racial segregation under "Jim Crow" would no longer be tolerated in the United States of America.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/civilrights/ak2.htm (408 words)

	King Chronologies
		Daisy Lee Gatson, journalist, civil rights activist, and major force in the integration of the Little Rock, Arkansas, public schools, was born in 1920 in Huttig, a small town located in the lumbering region of southeast Arkansas.
		Bates was born in Mississippi, attended segregated county schools, and went on to Wilberforce College, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church-supported school in Ohio, and majored in journalists.
		Despite some recent illness, Daisy Bates remains active in a variety of community organizations and is sought by the press, politicians, and the people to provide her unique perspectives on the contemporary problems facing the African-American community.
	www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/details/590418.htm (1516 words)

	Speaking Land
		Bates styled herself 'Kabbarli', or Grandmother, and for many she was an authority on Aboriginal culture.
		Daisy Bates was born Daisy O'Dwyer in Ireland in 1859, and first came to Australia in 1883.
		Daisy Bates is in the centre of this group at Ooldea in the 1920s.
	www.samuseum.sa.gov.au /aacg/speakingland/story09/09_story.htm (333 words)

	Daisy Bates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bates and her husband L.C. Bates were figures in the Little Rock Integration Crisis in 1957.
		Bates guided and advised the nine students as the Little Rock Nine when they attempted to enroll at Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
		Daisy Bates appears to be delusional at times in recounting her adventures with the Aboriginese but this is still one of the most fascinating reads I've had in a long time!
	www.freeglossary.com /Daisy_Bates (533 words)

	DAISY L. GATSON BATES DRIVE DEDICATION CEREMONY
		DAISY L. I am honored to be here today to celebrate the life and legacy of a civil rights pioneer as we dedicate Daisy L. Gatson Bates Drive.
		Bates and her husband were the voice of reason and of inclusion through their newspaper, The Arkansas State Press, one of the first in Arkansas owned by African-Americans.
		Bates’ commitment thrives in the sons and daughters of Arkansas who have served in Washington under the leadership of President Clinton.
	www.dot.gov /affairs/111000sp.htm (607 words)

	Book Reviews - 'Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines.' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Though Daisy painted an equally elegant world of wealth and society during her early years in Australia, the facts uncovered by Blackburn are that she arrived there in 1883, basically penniless, and worked as governess on a cattle station in North Queensland.
		There Bates began a decades-long study of the language and customs of a people whose culture and land, she realized, were being destroyed by white settlers.
		Daisy hated the train for what it did to her people: turning them into beggars and prostitutes, as they hung around the Line being corrupted by what she called the "low whites" who worked for the railroad.
	www.smithsonianmag.si.edu /smithsonian/issues95/sep95/book_0995.html (1994 words)

	Daisy Bates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bates was thrust into the national spotlight three years after a 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled that separate public schools "are inherently unequal." In September 1957, nine fl students tried to enter all white Central.
		Bates was president of the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1952-61.
		One day in 1957, Bates recalled in a 1992 interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, she received a call from Little Rock school Superintendent Virgil Blossom, who said the children would have to be snuck out for fear that a mob would break through the outside barriers.
	www.blacknlittlerock.com /html/daisy_bates.html (1197 words)

	Daisy Bates
		Daisy Bates, a civil rights leader who in 1957 led the fight to admit nine fl students to Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., died at a hospital there Thursday, November 4, 1999.
		Bates, as Arkansas president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was a central figure in the litigation that led to the confrontation in front of the yellow-brick school building, as well as the mean and snarling scenes that unfolded in front of it.
		Daisy Bates was born in the little sawmill town of Huttig in southern Arkansas, growing up in a shotgun shack, because one could stand at the front door and look straight through the front and back doors into the backyard.
	www.mishalov.com /Bates.html (1000 words)

	Daisy Bates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Daisy Bates, the tireless champion for freedom who led the groundbreaking campaign to integrate all-white Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas, died at age 85 on November 4, 1999.
		Born Daisy Mae Gatson in 1914, Bates grew up in Arkansas during an era in which white racists routinely used terror and violence to keep the apartheid system intact throughout the South.
		Bates, the state president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was not only the principal organizer of the campaign but also the chief source of moral support for the students and their families.
	www.socialism.com /fsarticles/vol21no1/DasiyBates.html (291 words)

	A A World . Reference Room . Articles . Daisy Gatson Bates \| PBS
		Daisy Gatson was adopted as a baby after her mother's murder and her father's subsequent flight for his own safety before prosecution of the three white men suspected of the murder could begin.
		Bates and nine of the fl students who were chosen to enroll at the high school withstood attempts at intimidation by the white opposition in Little Rock, which included rallies, legal action, threats, and acts of violence.
		Bates maintained her involvement in numerous community organizations and received numerous honours for her contribution to the integration of Little Rock's schools.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/daisy_gatson_bates.html (567 words)

	Daisy Bates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Daisy Bates tried a number of guises to win the trust of her Aboriginal hosts, including magic.
		Daisy Bates (1859 - 1951) The Passing Of The Aborigines: A Lifetime Spent Among The Natives Of Australia London: Murray, 1938, p.
		She noted that ‘the natives live in an atmosphere of superstition, with unseen forces always at work among them.’ She decided to exploit this fact, and it was then that she invented the native term of Kallower.
	www.kitezh.com /sevensisters/bates3.htm (375 words)

	African American Registry: Daisy Bates organized the "Little Rock Nine"
		Born in 1912 in Huttig, Ark., Daisy Gatson Bates never knew her parents; her mother was killed by three white men after she resisted their sexual advances; her father left town, fearing reprisals if he sought to prosecute those responsible.
		It was as president of the Arkansas state conference of the NAACP that Bates coordinated the efforts to integrate Little Rock's public schools after the Supreme Court's Brown v.
		Bates was the students' leading advocate, escorting them safely to school until the crisis was resolved.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/1267/Daisy_Bates_organized_the_Little_Rock_Nine (277 words)

	Daisy Bates
		Daisy Lee Gatson was born in Huttig, Arkansas, in 1912.
		Bates was the only woman who spoke at the March on Washington in 1963.
		Bates, as Arkansas president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was a central figure in the litigation that led to the confrontation in front of Central High, as well as the snarling scenes that unfolded in front of it.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAbatesD.htm (746 words)

	The Southerner \| In Passing: Daisy Bates
		Daisy Bates, a civil rights activist who led the fight in 1957 to admit nine fl students to Little Rock's Central High School, died Nov. 4.
		Bates was a key figure in looking after the nine children who where eventually accepted to enroll at Central.
		Bates is survived by four brothers: Emmitt Gatson of Detroit, Kucas and Lowell Gatson of Spearville, La., and Leo Gatson of Strong, Ark. On Nov. 8, her body lie in state on the second-floor rotunda of the Arkansas Capitol, only steps away from where in 1957 Gov. Faubus organized the famous confrontation.
	www.southerner.net /v1n4_99/passing4b.html (307 words)

	Papers of Daisy Bates - Photographs - Miscellaneous
		Daisy Bates and her 90 folders of records.
		Daisy Bates and the skull of a young Murray River Aboriginal.
		Daisy Bates and unidentified passenger and driver in camel buggy.
	www.library.adelaide.edu.au /ual/special/batesp14.html (218 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| DAISY BATES IN THE DESERT by Julia Blackburn
		In 1913, when she was a middle-aged woman, Daisy Bates made another journey to Australia, this time to the Great Victoria Desert of South Australia.
		Daisy's role as Kabbarli, the great white grandmother, can be seen as noble, offensive, or simply ridiculous, depending upon the viewpoint of the individual reader.
		Daisy's statements that the Aborigines practiced cannibalism have never been accepted by the anthropological community.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/daisy_bates_in_the_desert.asp (1336 words)

	Bates, Daisy Gatson
		Born in Huttig, Arkansas, probably in 1914 (some sources give 1912 or 1920), Daisy Lee Gatson was adopted as a baby after her mother's murder and her father's subsequent flight for his own safety before prosecution of the three white men suspected of the murder could begin.
		Daisy Bates published her autobiography, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, in 1962.
		Bates maintained her involvement in numerous community organizations and received numerous honors for her contribution to the integration of Little Rock's schools.
	search.eb.com /women/articles/Bates_Daisy_Gatson.html (537 words)

	Printed Matter -- Julia Blackburn -- Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I much preferred Blackburn's wonderful "Daisy Bates in the Desert." Irish-born Daisy Bates was a real woman who spent most of her adult life living with the aborigines in the Australian outback.
		It seems that Daisy Bates was an incorrigible liar and her biographers - one in the 1960s and one in the 1980s - had a very hard time indeed sorting out the facts of her life, separating truth from fiction.
		Blackburn said "Daisy Bates" was well received in Australia and the United Kingdom although at different points both feminists and anthropologists "took against" Bates.
	www.dcn.davis.ca.us /~gizmo/black.html (534 words)

	Daisy Bates Gives Lifetime to Gain Equal Opportunity » The Arkansas News
		As the angry reaction of the mob grew, the fl students met each morning at the Bates home to be escorted to school and then return after school to discuss the problems they had faced and see comfort in each other’s company.
		Bates had many other responsibilities during this period — meeting with reporters, seeking support from local and national groups, working with parents and other leaders in the fl community — she remembers with special pride her relationship with those nine students.
		Bates replied, “I would hope that the citizens throughout this whole country would motivate and recognize the children regardless of color, that we would be integrated in mind and heart, and that parents would stop teaching their kids to hate and start teaching them love and respect.”
	www.oldstatehouse.com /educational_programs/classroom/arkansas_news/detail.asp?id=45&issue_id=5&page=4 (510 words)

	Daisy Bates and Aborigines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She wanted to make a film in which she could be Daisy Bates - so she commissioned two Canberra academics to research her life.
		When both he and she were invited to speak to a scientific congress, at the end of his talk she went to the Podium, and instead of giving her paper she simply thanked the Professor for delivering her research so well - and sat down.
		I knew from Daisy's own writing that she was trusted to touch sacred objects belonging to the men.
	www.macha.free-online.co.uk /7day-extracts/daisy-bates.html (3419 words)

	African Americans - Daisy Bates, " One of the "Little Rock Nine"
		Daisy, along with the other members of the "Little Rock Nine" were awarded with the Congressional Gold Medal.
		Bates, Daisy, The Long Shadow of Little Rock (memoir), McKay, 1962, reprinted, University of Arkansas Press, 1987.
		Additional information was provided by notes on the Daisy Bates Papers from the internet site of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
	www.africanamericans.com /DaisyBates.htm (2014 words)

	Daisy May Bates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This Australian anthropologist and welfare worker was born Daisy O'Dwyer in Tipperary, Ireland either in 1861 or 1863.
		She studied the Aboriginal life and customs in addition to working for their welfare by setting up camps for the aged and fighting the attempts to have the native people "westernized." She was known among the native people as 'Kabbarli' [grandmother].
		Daisy May Bates' life was the basis for Margaret Sutherland's opera The Young Kabbarli.
	www.distinguishedwomen.com /biographies/bates-dm.html (235 words)

	Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader, by Amy Polakow, published by The Shoe String Press, Inc.
		At the very center of this battle was Daisy Bates, a feisty and determined woman who took nine fl children and, with the help of the NAACP, paved their way to becoming the first African American students ever to integrate Central High School.
		Like the “Little Rock Nine,” Daisy Bates sacrificed much for this: she was continually barraged with threats against her life; her home was riddled by bullets fired from passing cars; and crosses were burned on her lawn.
		Amy Polakow is a professional writer who has had access to all of Daisy Bates’s personal papers, as well as family photographs, and has visited with Daisy’s family in her research for this book.
	www.shoestringpress.com /books/daisybates.html (629 words)

	Daisy Bates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		Daisy May (O'Dwyer) Bates (1863-1951) was an Australian journalist, amateur anthropologist and lifelong student of Australian Aboriginal culture and society.
		Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (1914-1999) was an American civil rights leader, journalist, publisher, and author.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daisy_Bates (114 words)

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		For weeks Bates and the students endured unrelenting racial taunts, slurs, and threats, but rocks hurled through Bates' windows, a cross burned on the roof of her home, and being burned in effigy.
		As a young woman, Daisy Bates (with her husband L.C.) co-edited and published the Arkansas State Press, a newspaper devoted to civil rights and exposing injustices.
		In the mid-1960s Daisy Bates moved to Washington, D.C. and worked for the Democratic National Committee and served in President Lyndon Johnson's anti-poverty crusade.
	www.jimcrowhistory.org /scripts/jimcrow/women.cgi?state=Arkansas (1156 words)

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