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7. Mai 2024 · Lucius Christopher Bates (born 1901, Mississippi, U.S.—died August 22, 1980, Little Rock, Arkansas) was an African American newspaper publisher and civil rights leader. Bates was the publisher of the Arkansas State Press, a weekly pro-civil rights newspaper. In 1957, after Governor Orval Faubus called out the state’s National ...
20. Mai 2024 · At the age of fifteen, she met her future husband, L. C. Bates, then a traveling salesman living in Memphis, Tennessee. After the death of her foster father, she apparently moved to Memphis in 1932.
9. Mai 2024 · Bates and her husband, L.C. Bates, started "The Arkansas Weekly," an African-American newspaper. It was one of the only papers solely dedicated to the civil rights movement.
7. Mai 2024 · A statue of civil rights activist Daisy Gatson Bates will be unveiled at the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol on May 8. The U.S. Capitol building will soon be home to a new statue of...
8. Mai 2024 · A statue of Daisy Bates, a civil rights journalist and activist who is perhaps best known for her role as a mentor to the Little Rock Nine – a group of Black students who were the first to...
2. Mai 2024 · WASHINGTON, D.C. — Daisy Gatson Bates will become the 13th woman to be represented in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol in Washington D.C. on May 8, 2024, at 3 p.m. EST. Bates, best known as the mentor to the Little Rock Nine, was also co-Publisher of the Arkansas State Press, author of “The Long Shadow of Little...
4. Mai 2024 · Tour the architecture of the 1903 L. C. Bates Museum’s Romanesque Revival building designed by Maine architect William Miller and walk the historic Good Will-Hinckley grounds around the museum. See the 100 year old pond and road designed by Carl Rust Parker, learn about the tree plantings near the museum and learn about the history ...
