A Woman to Know: Daisy Bates
It didn’t take 999 to change the destiny of the country — it only took nine children. — Daisy Bates
It didn’t take 999 to change the destiny of the country — it only took nine children. — Daisy Bates
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Daisy entered the foster system in 1917, when she was just three years old. Three white men raped and murdered her biological mother in Huttig, Arkansas. The horrifying circumstances of her mother’s death haunted Daisy for much…
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