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Original Mother's Day Was An Antiwar Protest
Original Mother's Day Was An Antiwar Protest
Mother's Day started as a call for women to organize for world peace. Julia Ward Howe, a feminist, abolitionist and writer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," issued the first Mother's Day proclamation in 1870 following the devastation caused by the American Civil War and the start of the Franco-Prussian war in Europe.
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