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Bates, Daisy

Biography:

"Daisy Lee Gatson Bates was a mentor to the Little Rock Nine, the African-American students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock in 1957. She and the Little Rock Nine gained national and international recognition for their courage and persistence during the desegregation of Central High when Governor Orval Faubus ordered members of the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the entry of black students. She and her husband, Lucious Christopher (L. C.) Bates, published the Arkansas State Press, a newspaper dealing primarily with civil rights and other issues in the black community."--"Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (1913?-1999)," Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture. http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=591 (accessed September 27, 2007).

Alternate Names:

Gatson, Daisy Lee

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Oral History Collections (Butler Center for Arkansas Studies)
  • Howard Woods interview audio clip 08 (Oral histories (document genres))
  • John Cain interview audio clip 10 (Oral histories (document genres))
  • Leroy James interview audio clip 12 (Oral histories (document genres))
  • Leroy James interview audio clip 17 (Oral histories (document genres))
  • Leroy James interview audio clip 18 (Oral histories (document genres))
  • Mildred Smith audio clip 27 (Oral histories (document genres))
• Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture (Richard C. Butler Center for Arkansas Studies)
  • Arkansas State Press (Articles)
  • Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (Articles)
  • Mercer, Christopher Columbus Jr. (Articles)
• Freedom summer digital collection (Wisconsin Historical Society)
  • Kaplow--Friends of SNCC - General, 1964-1967, undated (Alicia Kaplow papers, 1964-1968; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 507, Box 1, Folder 6) (Reports)
  • Tselos--Mississippi Citizens' Councils brochures and pamphlets (George Tselos papers, 1961-1971; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 366, Box 1, Folder 3) (Fliers (printed matter))
• Memphis civil rights photograph collection (Memphis Public Library's Memphis and Shelby County Room)
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mrs. Daisy Bates address Freedom Rally (Image)
• Mildred Grossman collection (Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery (University of Maryland, Baltimore County))
  • [James Marley presents Daisy L. Bates with the Local 6 Civil Rights Award, New York, NY, 1958] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • [The Little Rock Nine arriving at La Guardia Airport, New York, NY, 1958] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • [Little Rock Nine students and Mayor Robert F. Wagner, New York, NY, 1958] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • [Little Rock Nine students and others listen to Daisy Bates at the Local 6 Civil Rights Award Ceremony, New York, New York, 1958] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • [Little Rock Nine students talking to reporters in City Hall, New York, NY, 1958] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • [The Little Rock Nine with Daisy Bates, Earl Brown, Governor Averell Harriman, and Jay Rubin, New York, NY, 1958] (Black-and-white photographs)
  • [The Little Rock Nine with Governor Averell Harriman and union leaders, New York, NY, 1958] (Black-and-white photographs)
• Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement (Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill))
  • Oral history interview with Daisy Bates, October 11, 1976 (Transcripts)
• Rosa Parks Papers (Library of Congress)
  • [Everee McCauley Ward, Rosa Parks and Daisy Bates at the Kennedy Center Birthday tribute to Mrs. Parks, Washington, D.C., 1990] [graphic]. (Photographic printsColor1990.gmgpc)
• Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Daisy Lee Bates following her arrest in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1950s (Black-and-white photographs)
• Southern school news (University of Georgia Libraries)
  • Southern school news (Periodicals)
• Visual Resources Database (Minnesota Historical Society)
  • Group in the NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] office during the Little Rock "Incident" (Black-and-white photographs)
• Wisconsin Historical Images (Wisconsin Historical Society)
  • Daisy Bates and four of the Little Rock Nine (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Daisy Bates at Sheraton Plaza podium (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Daisy Bates at Woolworth's boycott (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Daisy Bates entering NAACP office (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Daisy Bates standing behind Little Rock Nine (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Daisy Bates, the Little Rock nine and the 101st Airborne Division (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Daisy Bates watching television (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Rock with threatening note signed "KKK" (Photographs)
• With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty (Library of Congress)
  • Daisy Bates to Roy Wilkins on the treatment of the Little Rock Nine (Letters (correspondence))

Educator Resources

• For Educators (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
  • The Civil Rights movement: First day of integration at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas; photo and first-hand account from Elizabeth Eckford's perspective (Instructional materials)
• Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries)