| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas. By Grif Stockley. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. x, 340 pp. $30.00, ISBN 1-57806-801-0.)

Grif Stockley's biography of Daisy Bates depicts an assertive activist who, in a departure from traditional expectations of women's roles, did not confine her place in the freedom movement to the unseen yet vital organizing activities that historians have associated with black female participants. As president of the Arkansas State Conference of Branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and a central figure in the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in the 1950s, Bates worked hard to ensure both equality for black people and recognition of her own contributions to the struggle. Stockley provides a detailed description of her civil rights activities and tendencies toward self-promotion, challenging some of the information contained in other histories of the Little Rock movement and in Bates's own account of her life.

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