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.