Daisy Bates's Page

My Goal:

My goal was to stand up to prejudice and desegregate the public schools after the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that found segregated schools unconstitutional.

Source: Daisy Bates symbolized the legal fight to desegregate the public schools after the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that found segregated schools unconstitutional.

Quote:

"The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies."

Source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/daisy_bates.html

Education:

I am a very intelligent woman and I have a lot of accomplishments but It's unlikely my education went beyond the ninth grade and may have been no more than four grades. 

Source: http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=591

Profession:

Mentor of The Little Rock Nine, President of the state conference of the NAACP,

Publisher and writer for the Arkansas State Press, and African-American newspaper.

Source: http://www.biography.com/people/daisy-bates-206524

Organizations:

NAACP 

Arkansas State Press

Little Rock Nine 

source: book- Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine.

More Info:

My mother was sexually assaulted and murdered by 3 white men.

Source: http://www.biography.com/people/daisy-bates-206524

The March On Washington Speech:

It was during a time where woman were expected to keep quiet, I was brave enough to stand up and speak. I spoke about freedom to stand up against prejudice.