Bates, Daisy Lee

1914 - Daisy Lee Gatson Bates is a US black civil rights activist was born 11th of November in Huttig, Arkansas.

1952 - Elected as President of the Arkansas State Conference of NAACP branches.

1957 - Bates and her husband L.C. Bates were important figures in the Little Rock Integration Crisis.

Published a local black newspaper, the Arkansas State Press, which publicized violations of the Supreme Court's desegregation rulings.

1958 - Spingarn Medal(also awarded jointly to the Little Rock Nine).

1959 - Little Rock Crisis resulted in the loss of much advertising revenue to their newspaper and it was forced to close.

1960 - Daisy Bates moved to New York City.

1962 - Wrote memoir "The Long Shadow of Little Rock".

1963 - Bates is the only woman to speak at March on Washington.

1965 - Suffered a stroke and returned to Little Rock.

1968 - Moved to the rural black community of Mitchellville, Desha County, Arkansas.

1980 - Bates revived the Arkansas State Press and her memoir, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, won a 1988

American Book Award.

1999 - Daisy Bates died in Little Rock, Arkansas on 4th of November.