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Fathers Day In America
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History of Fathers Day

• Sonora Smart Dodd is the woman credited with
  creating Fathers Day in America.

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• Sonora Smart Dodds father, Henry Jackson Smart
  was a Civil War veteran and a widower who raised
  his children as a single father.
• Sonora was sitting in church in 1909 listening to
  a Mothers day sermon and it made her think of
  all that her father had done for her after her
  Mother died.

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• She felt that the important role that fathers
  play in their childrens lives was being
  disrespected.
• She decided that there should be a special day
  set aside for Fathers Day and began a National
  Campaign.

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• Religious leaders rallied around her cause and
  the first Fathers Day was held in 1910 in her
  home town of Spokane, Washington.
• Sonora chose to celebrate Fathers Day in June
  because her Father was born in June
• Mothers Day was immediately accepted and made
  into a National holiday but Sonora faced a lot of
  resistance in getting Fathers Day accepted.

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• 14 years after the first Fathers Day celebration
  Sonora got President Calvin Coolidge to publicly
  support making Fathers Day a national holiday.

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• Congress however was opposed to President
  Coolidges plan to make it a national holiday.
• They were afraid that the holiday would become
  commercialized.
• Fathers Day did not die out however, with
  Sonoras support a trade organization was started
  in the 1930s called the National Council for
  Promotion of Fathers Day. Their goal was to
  establish Fathers Day as a commercial holiday.

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• In 1966
• (56 years after the first Fathers day) President
  Lyndon Johnson proclaimed Fathers Day
• an official national holiday.

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• In 1972
• President Nixon signed a law making
• Fathers Day a national celebration
• on the third Sunday of June.

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Fathers Day Traditions

• Fathers day is the fifth most popular
  card-sending holiday in the U.S.

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• Ties were the traditional gift
• Other gifts are clothing, sporting goods, tools,
  electronics and other things.

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• The official flower for Fathers Day is the Rose.
• The red rose is worn or displayed to honor a
  father that is still alive

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• A White Rose is meant to honor a Father who has
  passed away.

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• The most common way to celebrate Fathers Day ,
  other than sending cards, is to have a family get
  together.
• Popular ways to celebrate are having a family
  cook out.

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• Going out to eat at a Restaurant with the Family.

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• Or having a family picnic.

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• However you celebrate Fathers Day, it is a way
  to thank fathers for all they have done for us.

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