In May 1881 Clara Barton — the ... named Adolphus Solomons founded the American Red Cross. The International Committee of the Red Cross had been formed 18 years earlier, in Switzerland, and ...

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

In 1832, the first Democratic Party national convention convened in Baltimore. In 1856, Lawrence, Kan., was burned by ...

Aug. 10, 2007 — -- A trademark lawsuit against the American Red Cross aims to ... the emblem for more than 100 years. The Red Cross formed in 1881, which is when it started using the red ...

5, 1881. The fires made national news. The Free Press, which at the time had almost no photos, carried headlines ... it was that they led the American Red Cross, then a new organization, to ...

Wednesday is National American Red Cross Founder's Day. The day marks the anniversary of the well-known humanitarian organization that provides assistance after disasters all across the U.S.

Returning home, she campaigned for and successfully established the American Red Cross in 1881. That year, the ARC provided relief to its first disaster – the historic Michigan fires that took ...