On 21 May 2021 the American Red Cross will celebrate its 140th birthday. The proof of its success is obvious if we try to imagine what life was like before the American Red Cross existed. It’s easy to take the Red Cross for granted; that vivid symbol of the red cross against a white background seems ageless, something we simply expect to see at the site of a natural disaster or a violent conflict. But the American Red Cross came to be because of the vision of one woman: Clara Barton (1821-1912), who became known to thousands as the “Angel of the Battlefield.”
The Angel of the Battlefield
The Angel of the Battlefield
The Angel of the Battlefield
On 21 May 2021 the American Red Cross will celebrate its 140th birthday. The proof of its success is obvious if we try to imagine what life was like before the American Red Cross existed. It’s easy to take the Red Cross for granted; that vivid symbol of the red cross against a white background seems ageless, something we simply expect to see at the site of a natural disaster or a violent conflict. But the American Red Cross came to be because of the vision of one woman: Clara Barton (1821-1912), who became known to thousands as the “Angel of the Battlefield.”