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November 4, 1999
Civil rights activist Daisy Bates died of a heart attack at Baptist Medical Center. Bates gained national and international recognition for her courage and persistence as a mentor to the Little Rock Nine, the nine African-American students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock (Pulaski County) in 1957. She and her husband, L. C. Bates, also published the Arkansas State Press, a newspaper dealing primarily with civil rights and other issues in the black community.