0:22. Copy this code to your website or blog. Protests over the police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner turned violent in California late Sunday after demonstrators hurled concrete objects, attempted to set fire to a patrol car and blocked a freeway, authorities said.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Clarissa Clara Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 â April 12, 1912) was a pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She worked as a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, and as a teacher and patent clerk. Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work at a time when relatively few women worked outside the home. She had a relationship with John J. Elwell, but never married.
In 1869 Clara Barton traveled to Geneva, Switzerland as a member of the International Red Cross. In 1880 the American Red Cross was established, the culmination of a decade of work by Barton. She served as the organizationâs first president until 1904 and continued her tradition of philanthropy as a volunteer in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Clara Barton died in 1912 at the age of ninety-one.