Oral history interview with Daisy Bates, October 11, 1976
Subtitle: interview G-0009. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Jacoway, Elizabeth, 1944- interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Race relations; School integration; African American civil rights workers; Women civil rights workers; Women journalists; Arkansas State press (Little Rock, Ark. : 1941)
Other titles: Interview G-0009. Southern Oral History Program collection (#4007); Interview with Daisy Bates, October 11, 1976; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Daisy Bates, noted journalist and civil rights activist, shares her experiences with civil rights activism and school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas. This interview offers some insights into the nature of civil rights organizing and the personal courage and determination of civil rights workers.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on March 8, 2007).

Interview participants: Daisy Bates, interviewee; Elizabeth Jacoway, interviewer; unidentified speaker.

Duration: 01:56:16.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

Text encoded by Mike Millner.  Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Aaron Smithers.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series G, Southern women, interview G-0009, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Jean Houston. Original transcript: 64 p.

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this version.

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