Little Rock, Arkansas (November 11, 1914 – November 4, 1999) age 84 yrs

Daisy Bates was an American civil rights activist. She was a publisher and journalist. She was also a lecturer. She served as president of the Arkansas Conference of NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) branches. Bates played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957. She mentored nine Black students who enrolled at all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. The students used her home as an organizational hub. Bates wrote a classic account of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis titled ‘The Long Shadow of Little Rock.’ In 1962, it couldn’t be found on most bookstore shelves. It was banned throughout the South. In 1988, after the University of Arkansas Press reprinted it, it won an American Book Award.

Oswald Garrison Villard (1872-1945) was one of the founders of the NAACP and wrote “The Call” leading to its formation.