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Person · 1914–1999

Daisy Bates

The Arkansas NAACP leader who mentored and shielded the Little Rock Nine.

A guardian of school desegregation in the [[civil-rights-movement]].

Publisher and NAACP president Daisy Bates guided the nine students who integrated Central High in 1957 through a gauntlet of mobs and threats, her own home a target of firebombs.

The Civil Rights Movement

On the timeline

  1. September 4, 1957
    The Little Rock Nine

    Nine students integrate Central High under federal troops as a mob and the governor resist.

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