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Daisy Bates
(1914-1999)
Who Was Daisy Bates?
Daisy Bates married journalist Christopher Bates and they operated a weekly African American newspaper, the Arkansas State Press.
Bates became president of the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP and played a crucial role in the fight against segregation, which she documented in her book The Long Shadow of Little Rock.
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Early Life
Born Daisy Lee Gatson on November 11, 1914, in Huttig, Arkansas. Bates’s childhood was marked by tragedy. Her mother was sexually assaulted and murdered by three white men and her father left her.
She was raised by friends of the family.
As a teenager, Bates met Lucious Christopher “L.C.” Bates, an insurance agent and an experienced journalist.
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The couple married in the early 1940s and moved to Little Rock, Arkansas. Together they operated the Arkansas State Press, a weekly African American newspaper. The paper championed civil rights, and Bates joined in the civil rights movement.