- 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
-3- Ther are worthy of praise. One your woman comes to mind---Mrs. Medgar W. Evers of Jackson, Mississippi, widow by bigots, her children deprived of the love and guidance of a father, because the husband and father believed that the Federal constitution applied to all men---even in Mississippi. Mrs. Evers divides her time as a mother to travel through the country and urge Negroes to take advantage of their consti- tutional rights to register and vote, which is so blatantly de- nied them in Mississippi. She displays no bitterness, expresses no hatred for the assassinator or assassinators of her husband. Mrs. Evers says, "I do not have time to hate, there is too much to be done. I do feel a little sad voer the apathy and complacency of the American people." We know the heartaches, tears and sorrows that segregation and dicsrimination bring. Many of us have grown weary and tired. But this is no time for illusions over our plight in America. We -more- - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/951
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:951/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact Special Collections for information on copyright.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
- Rights:
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