Daisy Bates was a great poker player, who enjoyed cheating when she felt she was going to lose.
When Daisy Bates lived in New York in the 1960s she developed a community of friends and acquaintances that included: Thurgood Marshall (future Supreme Court justice), Alex Hailey (author, Roots), Langston Hughes (poet), Lorraine Hansberry (playwright), Malcolm X, Dr. Kenneth Clark (sociologist), Fannie Hurst (author), and Dr. Otto Nathan (sole Executor of Albert Einstein's Estate)