Desegregation
Daisy Bates
Background
Born: November 11,1914
Died: November 4, 1999
Daisy Bates grew up in Huttig, Arkansas. She was only three years old when her mother was killed by a group of White men. This sad event made her aware of racism and violence at a young age. She was raised in a foster home until she was 15 years old, and she attended a segregated high school. Then she fell in love and moved away with her future husband to live in Little Rock, Arkansas.i In Little Rock, Bates took classes at Shorter College and Philander Smith College.ii