Presidential diarist and author Janis F. Kearney transforms civil rights legend Daisy Lee Gatson Bates’ life from black and white, to living color. The author, who interviewed Bates many times, shares Bates’ journey from the small mill town of Huttig, Arkansas as an orphan child, to her role as one of the most significant southern women civil rights leaders in American history. Kearney ends her book with a most insightful conversation with the civil rights legend during her final days.