Mother's Day Proclamation

The "Mother's Day Proclamation" by Julia Ward Howe was one of the early calls to celebrate Mother's Day in the United States. Written in 1870, Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation was a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. The Proclamation was tied to Howe's feminist belief that women had a responsibility to shape their societies at the political level.

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Julia Ward Howe - Mother's Day - United States - 1870 - American Civil War - Franco-Prussian War - Feminist

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Today, the proclamation is included in the Unitarian Universalist hymnal, Singing the Living Tradition.

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Unitarian Universalist - Singing the Living Tradition

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