Final Years

Daisy Bates final years were spent in New York City writing her memoir, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, published in 1962. She died at the age of 84 on November 4, 1999.

Inspiration to many

Daisy Bates helped the little rock nine de-segregate schools. Her attitude and strength inspired many to fight against segregation. Daisy Bates helped the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Plans and Change

Daisy Bates developed a plan, for the upcoming problem that Governer Orval Faubus had declared. Faubus declared that  "It is evident to me that Arkansas is not ready for a complete and sudden mixing of the races in the public school." The plan that Bates had was that a group of negro students would go into a white school accompained bu a group of local white and black ministers. These 9 African American students were the students that Bates advised. The outcome of her plan was a white mob which threatend the 9 black students lives, but they kept going to the school. In 1957, Daisy Bates was named one of the top nine news personalities in the world.

Accomplishments

Daisy Bates had many accomplishments in her life. She was the only women pilot in the Arkansas Civil Air Patrol in World War II. Not only this, but she was elected president of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People for the state of Arkansas, Bates served this term from 1953-1961. When Daisy was president she became the advisor to 9 African American boys and girls. These students soon after (in 1957) became the first African American students tp attend Central High School in Little Rock. This event occured in 1957, when in 1954  Brown v. Board of Education case, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools were illegal, however, this did not work in the south. Public schools were still segregated. Daisy proudly led these students to do this, which is a great accomplishment in provoking change in America.

Daisy's Life

Daisy married Lucius Chrisopher Bates in 1942, they began to change America. The two published the weekly Arkansas State Press from Little Rock. This paper became the largest black-interest paper and was the leading voice in the civil rights movement. Daisy and her husband criticized police brutality, segregation, and racism in the criminal justice system. The Arkansas State Press was the only African American newspaper in Arkansas for over 30 years. Daisy and her husband were just begginning their changing of America though. There was much ore of them to come.

Childhood

Daisy Bates grew up in Hutting, Arakansas. Hutting was a small sawmill town. Daisy's father whose name was Orlee Gatson worked in a lumber mill. As a child, Daisy's mother was killed due to resisting the sexual assault of three white men. After the incident, her father left, and friends of the family reared Daisy. Daisy learned the story of her mothers murder in elemtry school and found this very disturbing, so distrubing that she felt the need to do something about this. Daisy followed the guilty man and glared at him in publiv. Being a young African American girl, this was very risky and daring. Soon after Daisy began to glare at the guilty man, he pleaded "In the name of God, leave me alone."  Daisy was born to change history, and starting at a young age, that is exactly what she did.

A Hero is Born

Born on November 11, 1914, in Huttig, Arkansas, Daisy Lee Bates, a civil rights activist from the 1940s to the 1990s was born.