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Daisy Scott (Daisy Levester Scott) was a political cartoonist for the Tulsa Star, and one of the first published African American cartoonists.

Early life and education
Scott's paternal family, the Dicksons, had been enslaved by G.D. Royston of Hempstead County, Arkansas. Her father, Lem Dickson, married her mother Julia Miller in 1897. Daisy was born on October 24, 1897. She was raised from a young age by her great aunt, Josephine Fellows Hurst, in Little Rock, Arkansas. In May of 1917, Scott married Julius Warren Wiggins, a former welterweight fighter who went by the name Jack Ramsey Scott professionally. The couple settled in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where they were active in the Greenwood District, also known as Black Wall Street. They had twelve children.

Career
Daisy Scott was an expert milliner and seamstress before pursuing art. In 1920, Andrew Jackson "A.J." Smitherman, publisher of the Tulsa Star, hired Daisy Scott as a staff cartoonist. The Tulsa Star was a weekly newspaper that focused on racial and political issues within the local black community, with a democratic lean. Scott's political cartoons were frequently featured on the cover of the newspaper, and explored racial equality. Scott's career at the Star was cut short when the entire Greenwood District (35 city blocks), including the 15,000-square foot news plant, was destroyed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot.

Scott and her children endured abuse at the hands of her husband throughout their marriage. She passed away at the age of 48 due to cerebral hemorrhage and heat exhaustion.