The American Red Cross Story

Do you know that people need blood for every two seconds in the United States? Where did blood come from? The American Red Cross is a not-for-profit humanitarian organization. It will help disaster relief and provide emergency services to people in need. The American Red Cross has been around 100 years ago, and has traveled a long way. The American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton on May 21, 1881. In the late 1850s she moved to Washington, DC and worked for the US Patent Office.

The American Red Cross (ARC), also known as the American Red Cross Society, is a humanitarian organization that provides emergency relief, disaster relief and disaster preparedness education in the United States. This is the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Federation and the designated US branch of the US International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. ARC was founded in Washington, DC on May 21, 1881 and was founded by Clara Barton. She became the first President. Barton held a meeting at the home of Senator Omar D. Conger (Michigan State University) on May 12 of that year. Fifteen people including Barton, Conger, William Lawrence (R, OH) (who became the first vice president) participated in the first meeting. The first regional branch was founded in 1881 at the British Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dansville, New York.

Burton became the chairman of the American branch of the association, and in May 1881 he was called the National Red Cross in Washington. The first chapter begins in northern New York where we have contact. Finally, John D Rockefeller and the other four donated money to help build a national headquarters near the White House. When Barton tried to establish a network of American branches and the World Red Cross, Frederick Douglas, a famous abolitionist and a friend of Clara Barton, provided advice and support. As a treaty register of the District of Columbia, Douglas also signed the former company charter of the American Red Cross.