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Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (November 11, 1914 – November 4, 1999) was an American civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957. ==Early life== Daisy Lee Gatson Bates was born on November 11, 1914. She grew up in southern Arkansas in the small sawmill town of Huttig. Bates was raised by her foster parents, Orle and Susie Smith, who she believed were her biological (birth) parents for many years. In "The Death of my Mother",〔Daisy Bates, ("The Death of My Mother" ), ''ChickenBones: A Journal''.〕 Bates recounted learning as a child that her birth mother had been raped and murdered by three local white men. Learning of her mothers death and knowing that nothing was ever done about it fueled her anger. Daisy's adoptive father Orlee Smith gave her some last advice while on his death bed.
Bates said she had never forgotten that and it is from this memory that Bates claimed her strength for leadership came. Her biological father left the family shortly after her mother's death and left her in the care of his closest friend. Lucious Christopher Bates, an insurance salesman who had also worked on newspapers in the South and West. Daisy was 15 when she started dating L. C. Daisy and her future husband moved to Little Rock (Pulaski County) in 1941. They dated for several months before they married on March 4, 1942. In 1952, Daisy Bates was elected president of the Arkansas Conference of NAACP branches. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daisy Bates (civil rights activist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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