anna jarvis starts it because she remembered her mother going to these mothers' days. this is an attempt to turn it into a day personally for her mother. but the idea of mother's day comes straight out of this post-civil war period with the idea that women as mothers could clean up world politics. isn't that cool? this is where we get mothers days then. this idea of women taking a role and taking a role because they're different starts really to take off in the 1870s. in the 1860s right up through 1870 you get the idea that women should have rights because all humans should have rights. but during the 1870s you get the growth of this idea that women should have rights because they're different. because women have perspective that is going to be able to do things like stop war and stop the dangerous aspects of industrialization. so in 1874 we get the creation of the women's christian temperance union. the wctu. instantly they became politically involved. they organize under annie whitten meyer. they're trying to stop excessive drinking. they're trying to promote tempera

if you google mother's day, it will say it was started in 1908 by anna jarvis. that is wrong. she started it because she remembered her mother going to these mothers days. the idea of mothers days comes out of the post-civil war period, with the idea that women, as mothers, could clean up world politics. this idea of women taking on a roll and taking a role because they are different, start really to take off in the 1870's. in the 1860's right up through 1870, you get the idea that women should have rights because all humans should have rights. during the 1870's, you get this idea that women should have rights because they are different. women have a perspective that is going to be able to do things like stop war and stop the dangerous aspects of industrialization. in 1874, we get the creation of the women's christian temperance union, the wctu. they became politically involved and organized under annie wittenmyer. they are trying to stop excessive drinking, promote temperance. theoretically, saloons are being regulated, but they are really not. the wctu begins to do things li

anna jarvis starts it because she remembers her mother going to these mothers days. this is an attempt to turn it into a day personally for her mother. but the idea of mother's day comes straight out of this post-civil war period with the idea that women as mothers could clean up world politics. isn't that cool? this is where we get mothers days then. this idea of women taking a role and taking a role because they're different starts really to take off in the 1870s. in the 1860s right up through 1870 you get the idea that women should have rights because all humans should have rights. but during the 1870s you get the growth of this idea that women should have rights because they're different. because women have perspective that is going to be able to do things like stop war and stop the dangerous aspects of industrialization. so in 1874 we get the creation of the women's christian temperance union. they organize under annie whitenmyer. they're trying to stop excessive drinking. and many cities have theoretically saloons are being regulated, but they're really not. an