Thurgood Marshall (2011)
“Daisy Bates awoke to find a cross flaming in front of her house even before schools opened in the fall of 1957. Mrs. Bates, a tall, attractive woman with curly hair, was the NAACP chapter president and with her husband published the Arkansas State Press, the state’s major black paper. Daisy Bates had been threatened before, but as the opening day for school approached, the segregationists became more violent. First, the cross was burned. Then a rock shattered her front window, showering her wit...h sharp-edged glass. Bates picked up the heavy rock and found a note attached: “Stone this time. Dynamite next.”
It had been over a month since Bates had arranged for nine black students to integrate Central High School. Now every night Bates was awakened by honking horns and bright lights as people screamed, “Daisy, Daisy, did you hear the news? The coons won’t be going to Central.” Arkansas governor Orval Faubus went on television to announce that he was putting the state’s National Guard around the school to keep out the black students.MoreLess
It had been over a month since Bates had arranged for nine black students to integrate Central High School. Now every night Bates was awakened by honking horns and bright lights as people screamed, “Daisy, Daisy, did you hear the news? The coons won’t be going to Central.” Arkansas governor Orval Faubus went on television to announce that he was putting the state’s National Guard around the school to keep out the black students.MoreLess
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