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The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine (Golden Kite Honors (Awards)) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Dennis Brindell Fradin, Judith Bloom Fradin
Publisher: Clarion Books
Category: Book
List Price: $19.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 294356
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 8.3 x 1
ISBN: 061831556X
Dewey Decimal Number: 323.092
UPC: 046442315562
EAN: 9780618315567
ASIN: 061831556X
Publication Date: December 20, 2004
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Product Description
The life of civil rights leader Daisy Bates is vividly detailed in this stirring new biography by an acclaimed husband-wife team. Throughout her life, Daisy Bates worked tirelessly for civil rights as an activist, journalist, and organizer. She first captured national attention as the mentor of the nine black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock in 1957. During this crisis President Dwight Eisenhower was forced to use federal troops to insure the admission of the students, who became known as the Little Rock Nine. In 1999, just hours after her funeral, President Bill Clinton bestowed the Congressional Gold Medal on the Little Rock Nine, and two years later Daisy Bates was honored by a state holiday in Arkansas. In this noteworthy companion to their other distinguished biographies of African Americans, Dennis and Judith Fradin have drawn upon a trove of archival material including papers, correspondence, and photographs of her life and work. They also interviewed some of her living relatives and members of the Little Rock Nine. The result is a compelling, inspiring book about the courage and determination of one woman in the face of prejudice and intolerance. Endnotes, bibliography, index.
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A Must Read April 4, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I feel that joint writers Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin did an excellent job with the writing and pictures exhibited in The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine. It's hard to believe that the demand for integrated schools occurred less than a century ago. The novel depicts civil rights activist Daisy Bates and her quest to integrate the public schools of Arkansas during the late 1950s and early 1960s. She stood behind the nine African American students who our nation dubbed the "Little Rock Nine." The book provides pictures of Daisy's life including eye opening shots of the abuse the nine students as well as Diasy herself endured from Little Rock's public just to gain equal opportunity to education. Readers will become inspired by and appreciative of Daisy's work.
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