Movie Deatils Daisy Bates' Desegregation of School in Arkansas
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In an exclusive commentary from filmmaker Sharon La Cruise Women's eNews finds out what it takes to uncover stories about women's work in desegregation from our recent history.
"I knew the story of the famous opposition, in 1957, by local authorities against implementing the Supreme Court's anti-segregationist ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. But I didn't remember Bates' involvement. I learned that after the Brown decision Bates, as a leader of the NAACP, demanded the entry of black students into any of the all-white schools in Little Rock. This fight was very personal. Bates' own education hadn't gone beyond the eighth grade and she knew that the world of an uneducated black child was very small.
I read everything I could about Little Rock Central High. I found hundreds of books, but little information about Bates that went beyond her 1962 autobiography. Strangely enough, I also discovered there were no adult books on Bates' life; only children's books. She was mentioned in books about women in the civil rights movement, but even in them she didn't warrant a chapter. But the books still contained valuable information that I used to build a list of sources, from whom I pieced together the puzzle pieces of Bates' life."
Read the full exclusive at: http://www.womensenews.org/story/media-stories/120201/little-rocks-daisy-bates-g...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW_3cgDcAQM
"I knew the story of the famous opposition, in 1957, by local authorities against implementing the Supreme Court's anti-segregationist ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. But I didn't remember Bates' involvement. I learned that after the Brown decision Bates, as a leader of the NAACP, demanded the entry of black students into any of the all-white schools in Little Rock. This fight was very personal. Bates' own education hadn't gone beyond the eighth grade and she knew that the world of an uneducated black child was very small.
I read everything I could about Little Rock Central High. I found hundreds of books, but little information about Bates that went beyond her 1962 autobiography. Strangely enough, I also discovered there were no adult books on Bates' life; only children's books. She was mentioned in books about women in the civil rights movement, but even in them she didn't warrant a chapter. But the books still contained valuable information that I used to build a list of sources, from whom I pieced together the puzzle pieces of Bates' life."
Read the full exclusive at: http://www.womensenews.org/story/media-stories/120201/little-rocks-daisy-bates-g...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW_3cgDcAQM
