Research Paper On Daisy Bates

Daisy Buchanan, born Daisy Fay, is form a wealthy family in Louisville, Kentucky. Popular and beautiful, she was courted by several officers during World War 1. She met and fell in love with Jay Gatsby, an officer at the time, and promised to wait for him to return from the war. However, she succumbed to pressure from her family and married Tom Buchanan instead. The next year, they had a baby girl together, Pammy. Although Daisy is happy immediately after she and Tom are married, he begins having affairs almost immediately after their honeymoon to the South Seas. By the time Pammy is born, Daisy has become rather pessimistic, saying that the best thing in the

Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was a newspaper editor and journalist who went on to lead the American anti-lynching crusade. Working closely with both African-American community leaders and American suffragists, Wells worked to raise gender issues within the "Race Question" and race issues within the "Woman Question." Wells was born the daughter of slaves in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on July 16, 1862. During Reconstruction, she was educated at a Missouri Freedman's School, Rust University, and began teaching school at the age of fourteen. In 1884, she moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where she continued to teach while attending Fisk University during summer sessions. In Tennessee, especially, she was appalled at

Born Daisy Fay in Louisville, Kentucky, Daisy was always the princess in the tower, the golden girl that every man dreamed of possessing. ?She dressed in white, and had a little white roadster, and all the day long the telephone rang in her house and excited young officers from Camp Taylor demanded the privilege of monopolizing her that night,? (79). Daisy is beautiful, rich, and appears very innocent as a young woman, although it is later

In the life of Daisy Bates, she endured multiple struggles while fighting for civil rights and struggles in her personal life. Her mother was murdered by three white men after refusing their sexual advances and her father fled because he was afraid he would kill those who were responsible. Daisy was adopted my family friends, Orlee and Susie Smith. Daisy led a fulfilling life in Huttig, Arkansas. She went out of her way to protect individual’s freedom and ensure that their life is without discrimination. Daisy Bates got support from Martin Luther King Jr. where he stated how great of a women she was and on how it would be a honor to have her attend the gathering on Women’s Day on October 12,1958. There were 75 African Americans that were chosen

Mary Pitchford or “America’s sweetheart” was an iconic silent film actress and overall great entertainer in just about all categories film related. Mary was born on April 8, 1892, in Toronto, Canada and after only five years on the planet she would begin performing for an audience. Ten years later she would already find herself performing on Broadway in New York along side some of the most talented actors in the world.

“No man or woman who tries to pursue and ideal in his or her own way is without enemies” stated Daisy Bates. Daisy Bates was a wonderful women and did many wonderful things. She was the head of the Arkansas Branch of the NAACP. She was an incredible journalist and publisher. Also, she played a leading role in the little rock nine.

Her brothers found work as carpenter apprentices. For a time Ida continued her education at Fisk University in Nashville. A moment in My 1884 will change Ida’s life and goals forever. Having bought a first class ticket for a train ride to Nashville Tennessee she was denied the right to her seat and was forced to ride a car that was specifically for African Americans. Rightfully so she refused to give up her seat and ticket and fought the train crew and even bit one of the crew members, she later took the train company to court and won getting a 500$ settlement however the Supreme Court overruled the hearing and took her money away. After that Ida decided to start her own newspaper company named Memphis Free Speech and Highlight and begin to write her displeasure with the american government and america's prejudice practices.

Mamie Phipps Clark was born on April 18, 1917 in Hot Spring, Arkansas. Mrs. Clark was brought up knowing a professional lifestyle. Her father Harold H. Phipps was an African American, who was a physician and was more than able to support his family of four rather easily. Her mother Katy Florence Phipps, was a homemaker who was very involved in her husband's medical practice. Mamie had explained that being an African American in the early 1930’s and living in the South was far from easy, even for the middle class family that she came from. “My father was a well-respected black person, and it was a phenomenon that is not really unusual in the South, that even in the highly segregated situations, you will have a few blacks that are

On May 17, 1954, The Supreme Court declared that all public schools segregation unconstitutional. In, 1955, The Unite States Supreme Court ruled that all schools need to be integrated as soon as possible after the case Brown v. Board of Education. Daisy Gaston Bates, President of the National Association for Advancement of Colored People in the Arkansas Branch, enlisted nine African American students to attend the largest predominately white Central High School. Bates and her husband, L.C Bates, co-published the prominent African American newspaper of the Arkansas Press that encouraged the Little Rock nine to be known everywhere. African American students went through numerous interviews to determine if they were qualified to attend a predominantly

These nine students were recruited by Daisy Gatson Bates, Daisy (1914-99), president of the Arkansas NAACP and co-publisher with her husband L.C. Bates of Arkansas State Press an

Daisy Bates is an African American who owns the Arkansas State Press, and is the president of the NAACP chapter in Arkansas. She is married to Christopher Bates. Mrs. Bates has supported and documented the integration of Central High School from the beginning. She was born on November 11, 1914, she is 44 years old. When she was born her mother was sexually assaulted and

Daisy and Bill Myers, an African American family, received news that their family was growing. In need of more room as they planned for the new addition to the family, and while trying to achieve the American Dream, the family began looking for a new house. Levittown was a suburban town built by the Levitts. Due to the passing of the GI Bill, housing was offered at low prices. However, due to the HOLC, redlining had become a problem. Real estate agents had formed a map showing the most and least valuable properties. African American towns were redlined. This caused people to be uninterested in the property and a rise in want for segregation. Throughout the book, racism and segregation prevent African American’s from moving into Levittown. The Weschlers, residents of Levittown, were on a mission to integrate the town. When the Myers and the Weschlers crossed paths, a process began in hopes finally move an African American family into Levittown.To begin, the Human Relations Council was formed to make an attempt at integrating Levittown. As the group begin meeting at the William Penn Center, questions arose as to how it would be possible to move an African American family into the town. There were many fears from the council on how successful the integration would be. Another fear was the consequences if they were successful. The author, David Kushner, then reviled another problem. He stated “there was no telling what their neighbors were capable of.” On August 13, 1957, the

Very few recognize that Ida B. Wells was a significant player in women's rights and a key leader during the Civil Rights Movement. Ida was born a slave during the Civil War in 1862 in Mississippi. She grew up subjected to racial prejudices all throughout her early life. When she was around 16 years old, both her parents and one of her siblings died during a Yellow Fever outbreak. After hearing of their parents fate, friends of the Wells family made plans to split up the children in order to take care of

Daisy Bates, the president of the NAACP at the time, had called all of the children to her house the morning they were to attend Central High School. Only eight were in attendance. Elizabeth Eckford did not have a phone and missed the call. The girl was unaware of the plans to drive to Fourteenth Street together. While the eight, along with Daisy Bates tried to gain access on Fourteenth Street, Elizabeth Eckford faced a mob of some 200 white people shouting and threatening her alone on Sixteenth Street. The National Guard prevented entry to the school on both sides. Elizabeth escaped the crowd onto a bus with the assistance of a white lady named Grace Lorch.

I interviewed my Aunt Ailine Elizabeth Harris Watterson. She is a forty-five-year-old homemaker born April 16, 1954 and raised here in Johnson City, Tennessee. I chose to interview her on the Civil Rights Movement because she had to face a lot of obstacles her late childhood and young adulthood years. Here is a series of questions on the Civil Rights Movement that I asked her and the answers that she gave me.