Daisy Bates Helped Desegregate Schools In Arkansans (1914 – 1999)
A civil rights activist and newspaper publisher Daisy Lee Gatson Bates played a huge role in the integration of the Little Rock Nine into Little Rock, Arkansas’s Central High School in 1957. Bates was born Daisy Lee Gatson on November 11, 1914, in Huttih, Arkansas. In a tragic event her mom, Millie Riley, was killed […]