The Voice of The Civil Rights Movement Before it Started
- Dethra Giles
- Feb 14, 2021
- 1 min read

Daisy Bates was an American civil rights activist, publisher, and writer who played a leading role in the Little Rock integration crisis in 1957. Before that, Bates and her husband started their own newspaper in 1941 called the Arkansas State Press. The paper became a voice for civil rights even before the nationally recognized movement.
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