Mother's Day 2021 is Here! - Fort Worth Weekly
The campaign to make Mother’s Day a national holiday first began in 1907, when Anna Jarvis memorialized her mother, Ann Reeves Garvis — a peace activist who worked tirelessly to help the wounded soldiers on both sides of the Civil War. In 1908 the US Congress rejected her proposal, but by 1911 all the individual
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