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.
She was the superintendent of the Massachusetts Reformatory Prison for Women. Barton did field work for the German Red Cross during the Franco-Prussian War and founded the American Red Cross. She headed the organization for 23 years. After that, she founded and led the National First Aid Association of America. She remained honorary president until her death in 1912 at the age of 90.