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Women and Adversity: Lucy Keen Johnson, First Mother of the Year

Lucy Keen Johnson, First Mother of the Year, 1935 (es.newsner.com)  Women and Adversity: Lucy Keen Johnson First Mother of the Year Mother’s Day, to be celebrated this year on May 14, became an official U.S. holiday when President Woodrow Wilson made the proclamation in 2014. Suffragist Julia Ward Howe suggested the idea of a Mother’s Day in 1872, but it wasn’t until Anna Jarvis promoted the idea…