<div data-text="What you learned...">Suffragist and writer Julia Ward Howe first suggested the idea of Mother's Day in the United States in 1872.&nbsp;</div><p>Howe was a pacifist and saw the holiday as a chance to unite women and rally for peace. For several years, she held an annual Mother's Day meeting in Boston.</p>

The idea of Mother's Day

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<div data-text="What you learned..."><ul><li>West Virginia activist Anna Jarvis is credited with creating the Mother's day holiday that is celebrated today.</li><li>In 1908, she campaigned for a national observance of the holiday in honor of her mother, who was a community health advocate.</li><li>However, Jarvis later became disillusioned by how floral and greeting card companies commercialized the holiday and said she regretted starting it.</li><li>It became an official US holiday in 1914 when President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the second Sunday in May as a day of <i>"public expression of our love and reverence for the mothers of our country."</i></li></ul></div>

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