Mother's Day/Mothers' Day/Mothers Day
Title
Mother's Day/Mothers' Day/Mothers Day
Description
Suffragist Julia Ward Howe popularized Mother's Day as a pacifist holiday after the carnage of the Civil War. Listen to her 1870 proclamation read by @AlfreWoodard @GloriaSteinem & more.
For more on Mother's Day, @ZinnEdProject has great history and info on current organizing. For more on Julia Ward Howe - poet, playwright, leader of the American Woman Suffrage Association 👇
For more on Mother's Day, @ZinnEdProject has great history and info on current organizing. For more on Julia Ward Howe - poet, playwright, leader of the American Woman Suffrage Association 👇
Creator
Daily Suffragist
Source
Date
05/10/2020
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Citation
Daily Suffragist, “Mother's Day/Mothers' Day/Mothers Day,” Daily Suffragist, accessed April 23, 2024, https://dailysuffragist.omeka.net/items/show/376.