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.