Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 15. maj 1870 / Time Line May 15, 1870
Version 3.005/15/1870
Julia Ward Howe, suffragist, abolitionist and author of the "Battle Hymn
of the Republic," proposed Mother's Day as a peace holiday. She had
seen firsthand some of the worst effects of war -- the death and disease
which killed and maimed, and the widows and orphans left behind on both
sides of the Civil War -- and realized that the effects of the war go
beyond the killing of soldiers in battle. Mother's Day did not become a
national holiday in the US until declared by President Woodrow Wilson in 1914.
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