Daisy Bates Summit 2010
"Preserving Public Education, Ensuring Student Success"
The NAACP Daisy Bates Education Summit honors the late Daisy Bates, former president of the Arkansas State Conference of the NAACP and advisor in 1957 to the Little Rock Nine, the students who braved hostile opponents of integration to Central High School. Despite mob threats and intimidation, cross burnings on her property, and other acts of attempted violence, Mrs. Bates persisted because of her strong beliefs.The 2010 Daisy Bates Summit will convene grassroots organizers from across the country in early December to focus on moving the NAACP’s education agenda forward with a combination of traditional and innovative education organizing techniques conducted in concert with local allies.
This summit serves as an integral part of our year-round training regimen for state and unit Education Chairs, helping them to build capacity to address local education issues. The summit will focus on the four-part agenda developed at our retreat in 2009 and amplified at regional conferences and the National Convention throughout 2010: securing access for disadvantaged and students of color to great teaching, fair discipline, equitable resources and a college and career ready curriculum.
The 2010 Daisy Bates Summit will be held Thursday, December 2—Saturday December 4, 2010 at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel in Raleigh, NC.
Note: Online registration for the summit is now closed. On-site registration will open Thursday, Decmber 2nd at 1 p.m. For questions, please contact Yvonne Morgan at ymorgan (at) naacpnet.org
