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The idea of Mother's Day

Suffragist and writer Julia Ward Howe first suggested the idea of Mother's Day in the United States in 1872.

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.

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The creation of a holiday

West Virginia activist Anna Jarvis is credited with creating the Mother's day holiday that is celebrated today.
In 1908, she campaigned for a national observance of the holiday in honor of her mother, who was a community health advocate.
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Campaigning for Father’s Day

At age 16, Sonora Louise Smart Dodd lost her mother, and her father was left to raise Dodd and her five younger brothers alone.
In 1909, Dodd was listening to a Mother's Day sermon and realized the need for a day to celebrate fathers. She drew up a petition for the first Fath...

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