Red Cross Declares National Blood Supply Crisis
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The American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton on this day in history, May 21, 1881. Nurse Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton was born on Christmas Day, 1821, in North Oxford, Massachusetts, the American Red Cross website notes. She spent her early career ...
African Americans play an important role in American Red Cross history. After the Civil War, Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross, sat around a dinner table with famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass and talked about establishing a Red Cross ...