Independent Lens  Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock - Available through March

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Episode: Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock - Available through March

March is Women's History Month and to celebrate we're bringing you 10 films as part of the Women and Girls Lead Online Film Festival. Watch Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock, about 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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Duration: (55:27)
Premiere Date: 02/02/2012
Episode Expires: Sun 01 Apr 2012
TV Rating: TV-PG

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