Daisy Bates with Bill Clinton

Daisy Bates with Arkansas governor Bill Clinton at the dedication of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee; July 1991.

White man and African-American woman in wheelchair looking at statue of a young woman holding a sign that reads "God gave his only son for the freedom of mankind NAACP"

Photo by Lynn Frost, courtesy of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System

Media

Time Period

Divergent Prosperity and the Arc of Reform (1968–2022)

Category

Government and Politics / Governors / State

Type

Person

Race & Ethnicity

African American

Gender

Female

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