Summary Information

Title: Daisy Bates Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1946-1966

Creator:

• Bates, Daisy, 1914-1999

Call Number: Mss 523; Micro 801; Audio 814A; PH Mss 523; PH Mss 523 (3); M93-074

Quantity: 2.2 cubic feet (6 archives boxes), 6 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 4 audio recordings, 123 photographs (1 archives box and 1 oversize folder), 0.2 cubic feet of realia (1 box)
Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Daisy Bates, a civil rights activist who as head of the Arkansas NAACP was a leading figure in the desegregation of the Little Rock schools in 1957. Included in the collection are general correspondence, primarily relating to her speaking engagements and writing; speeches and biographical statements; and copies of drafts to her memoir The Long Shadow of Little Rock (1962). Also includes copies of clippings pertaining to Daisy Bates, L.C. Bates, her husband, and the school desegregation crisis in general; research files on the nine students who integrated Central High School; behavioral record cards of many Central High School students (1955-1958); Arkansas and Little Rock NAACP records; a few audio recordings; and photographs documenting the activities of Daisy Bates and her involvement in the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School.

Note:

There is a restriction on access and use of this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.

This date was disputed and previously listed as 1922. See Box 3, folder 3 "Biographical Data."

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00523