Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross. In 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed Bobby Franks, 13, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On May 21, 1881 Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross, a humanitarian organization to provide emergency assistance and relief for victims ...

Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross on May 21, 1881. Barton was inspired by the Red Cross movement in Europe while ...

In this lesson, students learn about Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, through primary and secondary source documents, then use digital storytelling tools to tell the story of her ...

But for Central Massachusetts, the month also marks more than 140 years since North Oxford resident Clarissa "Clara" Harlowe Barton founded the American Red Cross, transforming humanitarian ...

The Six and Twenty Club met May 9 at the First Christian Church. President Theresa Rembert called the meeting to order, and Secretary Tanya Day conducted roll call with quotations before reading the ...

Half a century before she founded the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had her first nursing experience at age 11, when her older brother fell off a barn roof. For nearly two years she remained at ...

Clarissa "Clara" Harlowe Barton is among the most honored women ... At the age of 60, she founded the American Red Cross, an organization she would lead for 23 years. * At the time, "homely ...

NEW YORK — Elizabeth Brown Pryor, a biographer and retired diplomat who drew on long-unseen documents to illuminate the lives of Clara Barton and ... the American Red Cross in 1881, zealously ...