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 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 were 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 which

he agreed to do the event went unnoticed

outside of the city though and it

stopped there since 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 I 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 this video is part of

a series where I go through holidays and

their history if you want to learn more

about our holidays you can subscribe or

watch the ones I've already made like

this one about Mother's Day which also

had its struggles but very different

ones or you could watch that one I

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