Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross, now part of the greater International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement. Barton, who worked as a nurse and helped locate missing soldiers, wanted the United States to join the International Red Cross; when the government rejected this, Barton created the American Red Cross.
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