Arkansans enthusiastic for U.S. Capitol debut of statue honoring Little Rock Nine mentor Daisy Bates

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May 4, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. | Updated May 6, 2024 at 3:25 p.m.

by Alex Thomas

Benjamin Victor works on his sculpture of Daisy Gatson Bates at the Windgate Center of Art and Design on the campus of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in this April 25, 2022 file photo. The statue is scheduled to be unveiled at Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Stephen Swofford)

WASHINGTON -- Ernest Green's first interactions with Daisy Bates happened through delivering newspapers.

Before Bates provided mentorship to Green and eight other Black students fighting to desegregate Little Rock's Central High School in 1957, she had already built a reputation as an activist for racial equality.

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