Father's Day was implemented in the US long after Mother's Day was started by Anna Jarvis in 1908. It wasn't easy getting a holiday celebrating fathers it took many many years for it to be accepted as a day to be celebrated . Father's Day was resisted by a lot of people and it took many years for it to be accepted and recognized as a real holiday.
Let's get into it .The first few times Father's Day was celebrated and it was a very small celebration and it didn't spread because it wasn't being promoted it started in a church in 1907 in West Virginia after horrible mining accident in monongah where 250 father's lost lives. Grace Clayton one of the children lost her father asked that the pastor of the central United Methodist Church holds some sort of event to honor and remember all the fathers who had tragically lost their lives in the mining accident and he agreed to do the event
There was no promotion of the event fast-forward to 1910 and a woman named Sonora Dodd hears about the Mother's Day for the first time and wanted a similar day to be held in honor of father's as well she told her pastors of her idea and they accepted they decided to hold a sermon on the third Sunday of June . This kept going on for a few years and Dodd was promoting this day up until the 1920s when she went to school and Father's Day faded away .Once again Dodd started promoting it in the 30s once more trying to get people on board with Father's Day.
She even had help from different companies this time since well they would benefit from the sales of gifts this kept going on for many years .It was never really accepted as a holiday even though Mother's Day had been accepted by the people for many years.
Now many years later in 1957 a senator Margaret Smith wrote to Congress about how it was wrong to just celebrate the mother and not the father but nothing really came out of it that's until President Lyndon Johnson made a presidential proclamation to honor all fathers on the third Sunday of June. This was in 1966 but it wasn't until in 1972 when President Nixon finally declared it a national holiday making it a law and it became accepted and recognized truly as a holiday so there was definitely more resistance to father's day then there was to Mother's Day which was recognized as a holiday 1914. Just a few years after its first appearance in 1908
Let's get into it .The first few times Father's Day was celebrated and it was a very small celebration and it didn't spread because it wasn't being promoted it started in a church in 1907 in West Virginia after horrible mining accident in monongah where 250 father's lost lives. Grace Clayton one of the children lost her father asked that the pastor of the central United Methodist Church holds some sort of event to honor and remember all the fathers who had tragically lost their lives in the mining accident and he agreed to do the event
There was no promotion of the event fast-forward to 1910 and a woman named Sonora Dodd hears about the Mother's Day for the first time and wanted a similar day to be held in honor of father's as well she told her pastors of her idea and they accepted they decided to hold a sermon on the third Sunday of June . This kept going on for a few years and Dodd was promoting this day up until the 1920s when she went to school and Father's Day faded away .Once again Dodd started promoting it in the 30s once more trying to get people on board with Father's Day.
She even had help from different companies this time since well they would benefit from the sales of gifts this kept going on for many years .It was never really accepted as a holiday even though Mother's Day had been accepted by the people for many years.
Now many years later in 1957 a senator Margaret Smith wrote to Congress about how it was wrong to just celebrate the mother and not the father but nothing really came out of it that's until President Lyndon Johnson made a presidential proclamation to honor all fathers on the third Sunday of June. This was in 1966 but it wasn't until in 1972 when President Nixon finally declared it a national holiday making it a law and it became accepted and recognized truly as a holiday so there was definitely more resistance to father's day then there was to Mother's Day which was recognized as a holiday 1914. Just a few years after its first appearance in 1908
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