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The images from the integration battles of the late 1950s and early ’60s just grow more shocking and shameful with each passing year, and the ones in “Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock” are especially jarring because the targets were children. Were Americans, or a segment of them, really so openly hateful and so blatant in their disregard for the feelings of other human beings?
The answer, of course, is that yes, they were, and sometimes they still are, which is why it remains important to look at these images and remember people like Ms. Bates. As president of the Arkansas N.A.A.C.P. she led the push to integrate Central High School in Little Rock in 1957, an effort that brought on ugly confrontations that left some of the students fearing for their safety.
(via Daisy Bates of N.A.A.C.P. Recalled on PBS - Review - NYTimes.com)