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LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — It's Daisy Bates Day here in the state and Daisy Bates Elementary chose to honor the civil rights activist in their own way. While the school is no stranger to the story of ...
Johnny Cash is one of two Arkansas natives—along with civil rights leader Daisy Bates, whose statue debuted in May—recently chosen ... “One of the quotes that the [Cash] family gave me ...
WASHINGTON, May 8 (Reuters) - The late U.S. civil rights leader and journalist Daisy Bates, who was instrumental in desegregating Arkansas public schools in the 1950s, was honored with a statue of ...
So begins, almost like a children's story, the extraordinary biography of Daisy Bates, a woman of Irish birth ... facts that the book builds on. Daisy May O'Dwyer did exist. She was born in ...
The union produced a son, Arnold Thomas Bates. John's work took him from home for long periods of time, which may have allowed Daisy the opportunity to also marry an Ernest C Baglehole ...
Arkansas unveiled one of its new statues at the US Capitol's Statuary Hall this week: Civil Rights leader Daisy Bates. Another sculpture ... KRESSE: One of the quotes that the family gave me ...