Daisy Bates papers, 1948-1986

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Daisy Bates papers, 1948-1986

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Correspondence, grant proposals, financial records, and other documents pertaining to the Mitchellville Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) Self-Help Project, 1968-1980; memorabilia, honors, awards, photographs, newspaper clippings, audio cassettes and film pertaining to Bates's involvement in the NAACP, the Little Rock Central High School integration crisis, editing the Arkansas State Press, and as a member of the National Democratic Party. Correspondents include Beryl Anthony, Harry Ashmore, Wiley Branton, Dale Bumpers, Jimmy Carter, Steve Clark, Bill Clinton, Gloster B. Current, Max Delson, Orval Faubus, Joan Ganz, Ernest Green, John Howard Griffin, Benjamin Hooks, Elizabeth Huckaby, Fannie Hurst, Edith Irby Jones, Kivie Kaplan, Alfred Baker Lewis, Thelma Mothershed, Pauli Murray, Pauline Myers, Ellis Thomas, and Roy Wilkins.

8 linear ft.

University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

Bates, L. Christopher.

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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...

Arkansas. Office of Economic Opportunity

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Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)

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