Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – When discussing the process of desegregation in schools across the country, you can’t negate the impact that ...
Photos that line the home page of Little Rock Central High School today paint the southern institution as a poster child for diversity and inclusion. A little Black girl cheering with a little white ...
In Arkansas, the third Monday in February has a name that isn't shared by any other state: George Washington's Birthday and Daisy Gatson Bates Day.Bates was an Arkansas journalist and civil rights ...
It amazes me how much focus there is on African-American history in the months of January and February, with programs and events relating to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s holiday and African-American ...
WASHINGTON D.C., DC — On May 8, 2024, Arkansas Civil Rights icon Daisy Gatson Bates took her place among some of our nation's heroes at Statutory Hall in Washington, D.C. About five years ago, ...
UNVEILING: Second Baptist Church of Little Rock hosted a simulcast event for the unveiling of the Daisy Bates statue in the nation's capitol. Credit: Brian Chilson Whether it’s the Parthenon or the ...
A statue of late civil rights pioneer Daisy Bates is one step closer to being completed and replacing an image of a white supremacist currently housed in the U.S. Capitol. The statue of Bates will be ...
A statue of civil rights activist Daisy Gatson Bates will be unveiled at the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol on May 8. The U.S. Capitol building will soon be home to a new statue of Daisy ...
WASHINGTON -- Ernest Green's first interactions with Daisy Bates happened through delivering newspapers. Before Bates provided mentorship to Green and eight other Black students fighting to ...
WASHINGTON -- Civil-rights leader Daisy Bates joined a short list of Americans honored at the U.S. Capitol as Arkansas and national leaders on Wednesday unveiled a bronze statue of the activist best ...
IN WASHINGTON, I'M JULIA BENBROOK. THE ARKANSAS SECRETARY OF STATE SAYS CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST DAISY GATSON BATES WILL SOON HAVE A STATUE IN WASHINGTON D-C. BATES WAS MANY THINGS, INCLUDING A STATE ...