February

16

Monday

2026

Daisy Gatson Bates Day

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Holiday Type: State holiday

Where is celebrated: Arkansas

Daisy Gatson Bates Day 2018

Daisy Gatson Bates Day honors the life of Daisy Gatson Bates, a civil rights activist who played a key role in an integration crisis at Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Daisy Gatson Bates Day is a state holiday in Arkansas, the United States, on the third Monday of February, together with Washington’s Birthday.

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