“What you're doing is a good thing... We're going to have to do a lot of things we don't like to do to get this thing, but we have to do it.”

— Daisy Bates

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About Daisy Bates

Activist • American

Daisy Bates was a pivotal American civil rights activist, journalist, and publisher. She and her husband, L.C. Bates, ran the Arkansas State Press, a newspaper that championed civil rights for African Americans. Bates...

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