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Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Hero Who Put Her Life on the Line
Daisy Bates was a complex, unconventional, and largely forgotten heroine of the civil rights movement who led the charge to desegregate the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.
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