Mothers' Day

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The original Mothers’ Day originated with Julia Ward Howe
reacting in the 1870’s to the horror of modern war. Women needed
to seize political power from the men who allowed this scale of
carnage. Throughout the Civil War, women had played a significant
role in the war effort, and they expected their agency and
participatory enfranchisement to continue in the post-war years.
14th Amendment did not give women the right to vote. Women
suffrage movements are formed in America in 1869. Julia Ward Howe
wrote, “Appeal to Womanhood Throughout the World,” and she
organized international peace conferences.

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