Daisy Bates

Daisy Lee Gatson Bates, a civil rights activist and mentor to the Little Rock Nine, the African-American students who desegregated Central High School in Little Rock (Pulaski County); circa 1960.

African-American woman wearing dark colored dress with double strain shell necklace

Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville

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