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Daisy Bates by Sarah Trafford

Daisy Bates (1914 - 1999) was an American civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957

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Lingthusiasm Episode 115: The long shadow of Daisy Bates with This Guy Sucked

What do you do when the only records that remain of a language were made by someone who had absolutely horrendous views of the people who spoke it?

In this episode, your host Lauren Gawne gets enthusiastic about a crossover episode with Claire Aubin of This Guy Sucked! Lauren's Guy who Sucked is Daisy Bates, who did a lot of early 20th century work documenting over 100 Indigenous languages in western and southern Australia, while also directly adding to policies and narratives that continue to harm Aboriginal Australians to this day. We talk about Lauren's history with the original archive, how much has changed since Daisy Bates's day, and where linguistics (and society) still has room to improve.

Please note that this episode includes reference to deceased Aboriginal Australians, as well as reference to attitudes and actions that are harmful to the self-determination of Aboriginal Australians.

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In this month’s bonus episode we get enthusiastic about the second half of our interview with Kory Stamper about her book on defining colour words, and this half contains spoilers!! We talk with Kory about how she learned about Margaret Godlove and many other women whose labour has been forgotten in early colour science and dictionary making.

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Here are the links mentioned in the episode:

This Guy Sucked

This Guy Sucked on Patreon

Daisy Bate - Dangerous Women Project

Digital Daisy Bates project

Wikipedia entry for 'Daisy Bates (author)'

Wikipedia entry for 'Breaker Morant'

'Yarning with Youth: Our new Commissioner for Aboriginal kids' episode of the 7am Podcast

Uluru Statement from the Heart

Wikipedia entry for 'Australian Indigenous Voice Referendum'

The Yoorrook Justice Commission

Books:

'Finding Eliza – Power and Colonial Storytelling' by Larissa Behrendt

'The Passing of the Aborigines: A Life Time Spent Among the Natives of Australia' by Daisy Bates on Project Gutenberg

'Daisy Bates: The Great White Queen of the Never Never' by Elizabeth Salter on Goodreads

'Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines' by Julia Blackburn on Goodreads

'Into the Loneliness: The unholy alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates' by Eleanor Hogan on Goodreads

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L.C. Bates was the founder of the Arkansas State Press newspaper, which featured news pertinent to the Black community and African-American civil rights. His wife / fellow activist Daisy Bates was a mentor to The Little Rock Nine students that integrated Arkansas schools. (photo dated circa early 1960s)

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Daisy Bates - played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957

After having learned at 8 years old that her mother was brutally raped and murdered by three European men, Daisy Bates dedicated her life to fighting inequality. She was an American civil rights activist, journalist, lecturer, and a woman who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957. When she was just 15, Daisy met her future husband and settled in Little Rock, Arkansas where they started their own newspaper, The Arkansas Weekly. It was one of the only African American newspapers solely dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement. Daisy, naturally, also worked with Civil Rights organizations. She was the President of the Arkansas chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for many years. After the Supreme Court ruled segregated schools unconstitutional back in 1954, Daisy began gathering African American students to enroll in European schools. Those who didn't want to accept African students were published in her newspaper. Even though she faced a lot of rejection, Daisy never backed down

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DAISY BATES // JOURNALIST

“She was an American journalist and civil rights activist who withstood economic, legal, and physical intimidation to champion racial equality, most notably in the integration of public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was known for walking black kids to white school everyday. She was adopted as a baby after her mother was murdered by three white men, and her father’s subsequent flight for his own safety before the prosecution could begin. She attended a segregated public school where she experienced firsthand the poor conditions under which Black students were educated.”

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Statue of Civil Rights Icon Daisy Bates to Stand in U.S. Capitol

African American news blog that features news that may get little or no coverage in the mainstream media