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:: programs (documents)
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
- 5 - jeopardize their lives and sacrifice themselves to protect a democracy, which they knew they could not fully enjoy. I wondered had the late President forgotten that Crispus Attuck, a Negro, was the first one to give his life to save this country from British oppression? As I asked myself these questions, a new understanding of the political, economic and social structure of our country began to unfold. I realized that a new kind of investment was necessary if we were to attain true democracy. That is why I am proud to address you today. I was headline recently in a Southern Newspaper, which said: "LBJ ACTS LIKE A RESCUE SQUAD FOR ANYTHING THAT AILS U. S." To me, it could not have been placed better or more timely, for that is just exactly what our president is attempting to do. His War on Poverty Program is designed to rescue millions who now live on the outskirts of hope. One proposal of his Federal Poverty Program is vital to the farming people of this country. -more-
Metadata URL:: http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/953
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