Daisy Bates Speaks Against Slow Pace of Integration

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Collection:: Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
Title:: Daisy Bates Speaks Against Slow Pace of Integration
Publisher:: Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
Date of Original:: 1964-06-04
Subject:: African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas
Location:: United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
Medium:: interviews
Type:: Text
Format:: application/pdf
Description:: Comments prepared for broadcast over WLIB Radio in New York City.
Racism -- Segregation -- Desegregation -- African-Americans -- Blacks -- Little Rock -- Pulaski
SPEECH BY: DAISY BATES The First Lady stated recently, that we are still shamed by the one-fifth of our citizens who live on the outside of hope, because they are poor. To this one-fifth, we shall address ourselves today. We can safely say that twenty million Negroes encompassed in this one- fifth live on the outskirts of hope. Not because they all are poor, but because of segregation and discrimination which exist in our country. Many claim that they can see no final and equitable solution to this problem. Nevertheless, if those of us who have felt the anguish of segregation and the pains of discrimination; and those of us who have labored in the vineyard trying to help a nation mold its morals, religion and politics; not by the sermons we preach, but by the lives we live, would look around we would see many signs of freedom sparks glittering in the dark of despair like a flock of dancing lightning bugs whirling through the dark night of discrimi- nation.
Metadata URL:: http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/949
IIIF manifest:: https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:949/manifest.json
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Contributing Institution:: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
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