Daisy Bates screening at Tivoli Cinemas
KCPT’s screening of Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock examined the legacy of Daisy Bates. Lindsey Foat, promotions and outreach coordinator of KCPT, gives a rundown of the event unfolded in Kansas City, MO.
At the outset of Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock, filmmaker Sharon La Cruise admits that despite having studied the civil rights movement in college, she only stumbled upon the extraordinary story of the woman that organized the Little Rock Nine many years later. The majority of those who attended January’s Community Cinema screening had also never heard of Daisy Bates and her fight to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.