Bates, co-founder of the Arkansas State Press newspaper, was a mentor to the nine students who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
A statue of late civil rights pioneer Daisy Bates is one step closer to being completed and replacing an image of a white supremacist currently housed in the U.S. Capitol.
The statue of Bates will be located in Statuary Hall and will be one of two replacing the century-old figures of secessionist attorney Uriah Rose and Arkansas Gov. James P. Clarke, who supported white supremacy, the today!
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