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Biography
Daisy (Gatson) Bates is Notable.
Daisy (Gatson) Bates was a part of the Civil Rights Movement.
Daisy (Gatson) Bates was awarded the Spingarn Medal for outstanding achievement by an African American.
Daisy Bates was a civil rights activist who played an important role in the events surrounding the Little Rock Nine.
Daughter of Hezakiah C. Gatson and Millie Riley.
Adopted by Orlee and Susie Smith after her mother's death (by murder).
Married Lucius Christopher Bates, an insurance salesman, on March 4, 1942.
Burial in Haven of Rest Cemetery, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA
Sources
- Daisy Gatson Bates (1914-1999) on Find A Grave: Memorial #6429311 retrieved 14 July 2018
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bates_(activist)
- "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDFG-ZW2 : accessed 1 August 2019), Daisy L Gatson in household of Lee Smith, Lapile, Union, Arkansas, United States; citing ED 169, sheet 13A, line 36, family 270, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 83; FHL microfilm 1,820,083.
- "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMG2-N26 : accessed 1 August 2019), Daisy L Gatson in household of Ora Lee Smith, Lapile, Union, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 26, sheet 12A, line 33, family 352, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 96; FHL microfilm 2,339,831.
- "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NMLD-R2F : 18 March 2019), Daisy L Gatson in entry for Lucius C Bates, 4 Mar 1942; citing Marriage, Dallas, Arkansas, United States, county offices, Arkansas; FHL microfilm 1,994,227.
- "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J1J8-V6N : 20 May 2014), Daisy Bates, 04 Nov 1999; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
- "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVTS-QJN9 : accessed 1 August 2019), Mrs Daisy Bates, , ; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Associated Press Archive, born-digital text.
- Harper, Misti Nicole. "Portrait of (an Invented) Lady: Daisy Gatson Bates and the Politics of Respectability." The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 78, no. 1 (2019): 32-56. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26661366.
