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100 years later How Mothers Day Changed
The centennial of Woodrow Wilson's proclamation making Mother's Day a national holiday prompts a look at Anna Jarvis's legacy. Andrew Phillips of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library explains Jarvis and her mother Anne Marie Jarvis, the origins in West Virginia, and the shift from advocacy to commercialization over time.
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Anna Jarvis
Woodrow Wilson
Jarvis
Andrew Phillips
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum
Phillips
Anne Maria Jarvis
Anne Marie Jarvis
Anne Marie
West Virginia
Mother’s Day
Grafton
Philadelphia
Andrew’s Methodist Episcopal Church
Anna
Methodist Conference of Ministers
Congress
Wilson
Hallmark
Katherine Anatolini
Motherhoood
West Chester
Pennsylvania
USA
America
Anna M. Jarvis
Miss Jarvis