100 Years of Mother’s Day
One of California’s most famous mothers, age thirty-two, was seen in magazines and newspapers throughout the world. Her family (seven children) was destitute in pea picker’s camp in Nipomo because of the failure of the early pea crop. When Florence Leona Thompson died (1983) in Scotts Valley, Calif. at the age of 80 inscribed on her tombstone was: “FLORENCE LEONA THOMPSON Migrant Mother – A Legend of the Strength of American Motherhood.”
100 years ago on May 9, 1914 President Woodrow Wilson declared the nation would officially celebrate Mother’s Day on the second Sunday in May. When the bill passed mothers didn’t have the right to vote, however, and President Wilson had a battle on his hands trying to provide women equal rights. Read more…>
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