60 YEARS AGO TODAY DAISY BATES AND LITTLE ROCK NINE INTEGRATE U.S. SCHOOLS

A REPOST
FEELING REBLOGGY

In 1954, the United States Supreme Court, via Brown v Board of Education,  declared that school segregation unconstitutional in the United States. That legal change on paper had to be challenged in reality. 

Daisy Bates was one of the civil rights leaders who took the baton pass from Thurgood Marshall, an attorney that argued Brown V Board before becoming the first black Supreme Court Justice.   

In fact, Daisy was one of the first civil rights activists to do battle and integrate U.S. Schools.  And that battle began on September 4, 1957

DAISY BATES 

BLACK FEMALE CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER

Born: November 11, 1914, Huttig, AR

Died: November 4, 1999, Little Rock, AR

President of NAACP Arkansas Branch and the co-owner of a newspaper, Daisy Bates was always on the front lines in the fight against segregation.

 

Little Rock Nine

"In 1957, she helped nine African American students to become the first to attend the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, who became known as the Little Rock Nine. The group first tried to go to the school on September 4.

A group of angry whites jeered at them as they arrived. The governor, Orval Faubus, opposed school integration and sent members of the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the students from entering the school...

Bates’ home became the headquarters for the battle to integrate Central High School and she served as a personal advocate and supporter to the students. President Dwight D. Eisenhower became involved in the conflict and ordered federal troops to go to Little Rock to uphold the law and protect the Little Rock Nine."

Eventually Bates and The Little Rock Nine Prevailed.

~BIOGRAPHY 

http://www.biography.com/people/daisy-bates-206524#little-rock-nine

Daisy put the "fem" in "feminist" before the word "feminist" was recognized by the average citizen.  
Read More About Her: 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14563865"

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/daisy-bates-first-lady-of-little-rock/https://zinnedproject.org/materials/daisy-bates-first-lady-of-little-rock/
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