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Independent Lens | A Civil Rights Hero Who Put Her Life on the Line | PBS

Duration: 01:03
Program: Independent Lens #1313
Broadcast Date: Feb. 2, 2012

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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