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.
The best known of these women, of course, is Clara Bartonâbut her genius was in supply distribution and in development of systems for the missing and dead, not in nursing. Barton herself acknowledged that she actually nursed for only about six months of the four-year war and that other women did much more.