Daisy Bates

Civil rights leader Daisy Gatson Bates listens to a program prior to receiving an honorary degree at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County); May 12, 1984.

Black woman in glasses and academic robes seated on stage amid white men

Courtesy of the Arkansas State Archives

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