Barton was a pioneer in many ways. She was a school teacher when most teachers were men & is among the 1st women to work in the fed gov.
March is National @RedCross Month - an organization founded by a woman, Clara Barton. #WomensHistoryMonthpic.twitter.com/FysySBEaFi
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She was working as a recording clerk in the @usptoe in Washington, DC, when the first units of federal troops poured into DC in 1861.
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Barton felt a calling to help her “soldier boys”- many of the men she had grown up with or taught - during the Civil War.
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In 1881, she founded the American Red Cross & led it for the next 23 years >> http://rdcrss.org/1jMbimy
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Barton also was passionate about education, prison reform, women’s suffrage, civil rights, & even spiritualism.
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