1 / 8

From There to Here

From There to Here. 1866 thru 1869 - Office of Correspondence with Friends of the Missing Men of the United States Army. 1869 – Traveled to Europe Franco-Prussian War. 1873 – Returned to America Petitioned International Red Cross HQ in Geneva “win public support”

elvin
Download Presentation

From There to Here

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. From There to Here

  2. 1866 thru 1869 - Office of Correspondence with Friends of the Missing Men of the United States Army

  3. 1869 – Traveled to Europe • Franco-Prussian War

  4. 1873 – Returned to America • Petitioned International Red Cross HQ in Geneva • “win public support” • “gain the President’s active support” • “secure the adoption of the Geneva Treaty by the United States Senate”

  5. May 21, 1881 – First national meeting of the Association of the American Red Cross • August 22, 1881 – First local society of the American Red Cross established in Dansville, NY

  6. First response • 5,000 people displaced by forest fire in Michigan

  7. March 16, 1882 – Senate ratified Treaty of the Geneva Convention • Clara Barton became first president of the American Red Cross…for the next 23 years

More Related