Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock (2011)
Directed by Sharon La Cruise
Genres - Historical Film |
Sub-Genres - Biography |
Run Time - 57 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis
The story of civil-rights activist Daisy Bates (1914-99), who led the Arkansas NAACP during the 1957 Little Rock school-integration crisis. Included: remarks from one of the Little Rock Nine, Ernest Green; author Elizabeth Jacoway ("Turn Away Thy Son"), who interviewed Bates for an oral-history project; former Arkansas State Press managing editor Janis Kearney; historian John Kirk; former Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation president Sybil Jordan-Hampton; and Bates' cousin David Neely.
