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Arkansas Weekly
Arkansas Weekly
8 pages
Author: Emily Johnson
Courage
Justice
Change
Inspiration
Education
Summary
Daisy Bates is a young woman who dedicated her newspaper to the civil rights movement. After learning segregated schools are unconstitutional, she used her newspaper to expose schools violating the law. She helped her local school integrate by giving students advise and driving them around. Unfortunately violence and threats made her shut down her news paper. However she continued to work on integrating schools, and even publish a memoir on the Little Rock 9. She became to the only woman to speak at the March On Washington.
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