Papers, 1946-1966.

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Papers, 1946-1966.

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Papers of Daisy Bates (1914-1999), a civil rights activist who as a former head of the Arkansas NAACP was a leading figure in the desegregation of the Little Rock schools in 1957. Records of the Arkansas and Little Rock NAACP chapter as kept by Mrs. Bates include legal documents, minutes, printed memos, financial statements, correspondence, transcripts of telephone conversations, and a discussion between NAACP officer Clarence Laws and the nine students. Tapes in the collection contain portions of an interview with Mrs. Bates, a general discussion of the situation in Little Rock, and a speech by Orval E. Faubus. The photographs document the activities of Mrs. Bates and her involvement in the desegregation of Central High School and subsequent related events from 1957-1960. Included are images of Mrs. Bates, L.C. Bates, the Little Rock Nine students, and others involved in the desegregation events. Additional images document the violence that occurred as a result of this effort. The processed portion is summarized above and is described in the register. Additional accessions are described below.

2.2 c.f. (6 archives boxes)6 reels of microfilm (35 mm.)4 tape recordings, and.123 photographs (1 archives box and 1 oversize folder); plus.additions of 0.2 c.f.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6922770

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Bates, Daisy, 1914-1999

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Daisy Bates, born Daisy Lee Gatson, born on November 11, 1914, Huttig, Arkansas, was a social activist and author. She married L. Christopher Bates, publisher of the Arkansas State Press, in 1942. The couple lived in Little Rock (Pulaski County) where they published their newspaper and were active in the Arkansas State Conference of the NAACP. She became the advisor to the Little Rock Nine, the first group to integrate Central High School in 1957. Following the writing of her memoirs in 1960, Mr...

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Little Rock Branch.

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Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994

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34th governor of Arkansas. Faubus was born in the Ozark Mountain community of Greasy Creek; taught school in rural communities (1928...1939); worked as an itinerant farm laborer and lumberjack (1931...1935); briefly attended Commonweath College, the radical labor school at Mena (Polk County) Arkansas (1935); was elected to two terms as Madison County Circuit Clerk and Recorder; served in the U.S. Army as an enlisted man and subsequently as a commissioned officer in Europe (1942-1946); was Huntsv...

Bates, L. C.

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Laws, Clarence.

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