Negro students eat Thanksgiving dinner with Mr. & Mrs. L.C. Bates [graphic] / Will Counts [photographer]. 1957.

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Negro students eat Thanksgiving dinner with Mr. & Mrs. L.C. Bates [graphic] / Will Counts [photographer]. 1957.

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Negro students eat Thanksgiving dinner with L.C. and Daisy Lee Gatson Bates, November 1957. L.C. holds carving knife. The Bates established the Arkansas State Press, a black newspaper. Daisy Bates served for many years as the president of the NAACP. From the left are Carlotta Walls, Terrance Roberts, Melba Pattillo, Thelma Mothershed, L.C. Bates and Daisy Bates.

1 photograph : negative : b&w ; 13 x 10 cm. (5 x 4 in.)

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Arkansas History Commission

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Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)

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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...

Mothershed, Thelma.

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Bates, L. C.

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Pattillo, Melba.

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Roberts, Terrence J.

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Management executive, psychology professor and "Little Rock Nine" member Dr. Terrence James Roberts was born on December 3, 1941 to William L. and Margaret G. Roberts. His father worked for the Veteran's Administration and his mother ran a catering service in Little Rock, Arkansas. Roberts attended Dunbar Junior High School in the early 1950s, and was only thirteen when the U.S. Supreme Court issued theBrown v. Board of Educationdecision to integrate schools.Roberts had begun attending Horace Ma...

Arkansas History Commission

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The Arkansas History Commission was created by the General Assembly in 1905. Inspired and guided during its early years by John Hugh Reynolds, the commission is the official archives of the state, responsible for collecting and preserving the source materials of the history of Arkansas. From the description of Arkansas History Commission records, 1905-1984 [microform]. (Arkansas History Commission). WorldCat record id: 244818119 ...

Walls, Carlotta.

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Counts, I. Wilmer (Ira Wilmer), 1931-

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After the United States Supreme Court had ruled in 1954 that racial segregation in public schools must be ended, Little Rock planned to gradually integrate its schools over a period of six years. The first African American students were to be admitted to Central High School in September 1957. The nine students were Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Pattillo, Gloria Ray, Terrance Roberts, Jefferson Thomas and Carlotta Walls. When the students attempted to ...