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.