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Daisy Lee Gatson Bates born in Huttig, Arkansas.
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L.C. and Daisy got married Fordyce (Dallas County)
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While she and her future husband were dating they joined together and began the newspaper.
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Daisy Bates became the president of NAACP in 1952-1961 she served ten years.
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Daisy leaded the first nine African-Americans to Central High School and white people spit on them.
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Daisy got arrested for not turning over NAACP record.
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Bycotts and poor advertising made the newspaper stop.
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Daisy Bates published her first book in 1962 to explain what happend at the Little Rock crisis in her point of view.
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She went to Baptist Hospital to get treted.
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She worked on projects from 1966 to 1974 in Mitchellville, Arkansas.
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her husband suffered with a heart attack and donated his body to University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
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She graduated with a honoary Doctor of Laws degree at Shorter University.
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In 1984 Daisy published her newspaper after her husbands death.
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Daisy won the American Book Awards from her book The Long Shadow of Little Rock.
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Daisy Lee Gatson Bates passed away and it was very popular.