Soon after arriving at the police station, the five arrested students were made a bail of $100 each, put up by the Little Rock chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The students had called Daisy Bates, the state NAACP president plus co-owner of Little Rock's leading African American newspaper, the Arkansas State Press, to report to her of the intended protest. Daisy's husband, L.C. Bates, mobilized attorneys, and went down to the city’s jail to ensure the release of the five students. Reporters on the scene questioned L.C. Bates why the students had performed a sit-in. "Well, put it this way," Bates said to them, "You can go anywhere in any store and buy anything but when you try to buy food you
