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You Are There - The Heroism of Clara Barton

CW: Pain, blood.

September 17th, 1862. The Heroism of Clara Barton. You Are There.

Soldier: Ms. Barton? Ms. Barton? Ms. Barton!

(De): My cheek. It’s on fire.

Clara: Let me look. When you were hit, the ball was too far spent to cut its way clean through. It’s lodged there in your cheek.

(De): It’s feels like a – like a plug of tobacco, only I, I reckon I can’t chew it.

Clara: I’ll go get a surgeon to get it out.

(De): No. This is a handy way for you to take home a Rebel souvenir, ma’am. Besides, the others need a surgeon more than me.

Clara: But you can’t endure that.

(De): How ‘bout you? I tell you what, you take it out. You take it out and you’ve got yourself a Rebel- a Rebel souvenir, huh?

Clara: I?

(De): Yeah.

Clara: But I’ve never done surgery.

(De): Ma’am you can’t do nothing to hurt this face of mine. You should’ve seen it before the [unintelligible] got ahold of it.

Clara: But I have no chloroform; it’ll be most painful, for both of us.  

(De): I can stand the pain. And, and I’ll rest a lot better after it’s all over.

Clara: I did not do it, I wouldn’t rest at all. Alright. As much as it will hurt you you’ve got to try your best to keep your face still. That’s what I usually do, but this time my hands won’t be free for it.

Soldier: Wait. I can do that much. Don’t worry, my arms are as strong as ever. I’ll hold him steady enough.

Clara: Yes. It’s done.

(De): I-

Clara: Don’t try to speak. I know what it is you want to say.

Man: Here, I’ll take care of him Ms. Clara.

Clara: Thank you.

Soldier: I’ll say it for the both of us.

(De): (sobbing)

Reporter: It can not yet be determined what side will call this battle a victory. But it is certain to anyone who has witnessed its bloodshed, that it will not be one to celebrate.

Clara: Waste, waste. You think this man is crying because of the pain in his poor face? He just heard his captain is killed and his regiment wiped out. He’ endured pain, he’s faced death, and now he cries like a child for his comrades. Men’s sobs are not easy to forget.

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Even before she founded the disaster relief initiative American Red Cross (ARC) in 1881, Clara Barton was a force of nature. She once established a free school in Bordentown, New Jersey so successful that the townsmen wanted to run it themselves, and later nursed injured Union troops and distributed crucial supplies during the American Civil War. Barton created the ARC after observing the work of the International Red Cross overseas.

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Circular Letter from the Woman's Protest Committee on the Statehood Bill

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Petitions and Related Documents That Were Presented, Read, or TabledFile Unit: Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Tabled

WOMAN'S PROTEST COMMITTEE.

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"The Status of Woman Marks the Degree of a Nation's Civilization."

OCTOBER 22nd, 1904.

DEAR MADAM:-A bill is now pending in Congress which so vitally affects the interests of women in the great South-

West that we believe you and your organization would like to protest against the injustice therein threatened our sisters.

The bill proposes to unite Oklahoma and Indian Territories into one State under the name of Oklahoma, and to com-

bine New Mexico and Arizona Territories into a State under the name of Arizona. This measure has passed the Lower House

of Congress, has been read twice in the Senate and is now before the Senate Committee on Territories, of which Senator Al-

bert J Beveridge is Chairman, and the following named Senators are also members: William P. Dillingham, Knute Nelson,

Thomas R. Bard, Henry E. Burnham, John Kean, William B. Bate, Thomas M. Patterson, James P. Clarke and Francis G.

Newlands. Now is the time to amend, while the bill is in Committee.

The portion of the bill threatening injustice to the women in the proposed new States is found in Paragraph 5 of Sec-

tions 3 and 21, which would allow these States, when organized, to disfranchise minors, criminals, lunatics, non-residents,

ignoramuses and [italic] women. This part of the bill reads as follows:

"Fifth-That said State shall never enact any law restricting or abridging the right of suffrage on account

"of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, or on account of any other conditions or qualificartions, save

"and except on account of illiteracy, minority, [italic] sex, conviction of felony, mental condition, or residence; pro-

vided, however, that any such restrictions shall be made uniform and applicable alike to all citizens."

There may be other objections to this part of the bill, that Congress gratuitously interferes to forbid negro disfranchise-

ment, or disfranchisement "for any other conditions or qualifications," which latter will prevent disfranchisement for lack of

United States citizenship, a prohibition never before laid on a State. This wording will be interpreted by some as even pro-

hibiting the future enfranchisement of women in these new States. These paragraphs might well be omitted.

But the injustice to women might be averted if only the word "sex" were stricken from the paragraphs. The pioneer

women of the West, who have labored and suffered by their husbands' sides to advance civilization, ought not to be so unjustly

classed with felons, lunatics and children, while their own husbands, equals in other respects, are enfranchised. The Congress

of the United States ought not to set its seal upon the possibility of the perpetual disfranchisement of these women, an un-

merited disgrace and punishment. It is true that in many States women have been tacitly ranked with these defective delin-

quent and dependent classes, but never before has the insult been so open and flagrant, nor has it been in an Act of Congress.

The representative of the United States Government, the Territorial Governor of Arizona, once before interfered in

Arizona legislation to the defeat of women, by vetoing the woman suffrage bill passed by the Legislature of Arizona.

The women of all our great country should now protest against the women of the Southwest being ranked with the

classed justly disfranchised, any other member of which may be effort, behavior, or lapse of time, achieve enfranchisement.

Will you not ask your organization to write to the two Senators from your own State, to Senator Beveridge, the Chair-

man of the Committee on Territories, and to the rest of the Committee, asking each to work for the omission of the word

"sex" from the two paragraphs quoted above, or for the omission of the entire paragraphs.

There is need of haste in this matter and we urge action by your organization at the earliest possible date.

The sending out of this letter is authorized by the following named women, who, as individuals, urge you to take

speedy action:

Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin, Honorary President General Federation of Women's Clubs; Miss Susan B. Anthony, Honorary

President National American Woman Suffrage Association; Mrs. Mary Wood Swift, President National Council of Women;

Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon, President National Council Jewish Women; Rev. Anna H. Shaw, President National American

Woman Suffrage Association; Mrs. Mary A. Livermore; Mrs. Fanny Garrison Villard; Miss Laura Clay; Miss Margaret Haley,

President National Teachers' Federation; Mrs. Ella S. Stewart, Franchise Superintendent of National Women's Temperance

Union; Mrs. Emily W. Thorndyke, President National Catholic Woman's League; Mrs. Lida P. Robinson, President Arizona

Woman Suffrage Association; Mrs. Elizabeth M. Gilmer, (Dorothy Dix); Mrs. Mary T. Hagar, President National Ladies of

the Grand Army of the Republic; Mrs. Ellen C. Sargent, Honorary President of California Woman's Suffrage Association; Mres.

Mary S. Sperry, President California Woman Suffrage Association; Mrs. Catharine Waugh McCulloch, Legal Advisor National

American Woman Suffrage Association; Miss Clara Barton; Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Honorary President International Coun-

cil of Women; Mrs. Elmina Springer, of the Woman's Relief Corps and Eastern Star; Mrs. Florence Kelley; Mrs. Emmy C.

Evald, President National Lutheran Woman's League; Mrs. Frederick Schoff, President National Congress of Mothers; Mrs.

Leonora M. Lake; Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis, Legislative Superintendent of National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and

Mrs. Lilian M. N. Stevens, President National Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

Will you notify your local press as to your action, and also notify Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, of Warren, Ohio.

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OTD in 1881, Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross. Known around the world for their helping hands in times of crisis, the Red Cross has been providing assistance to those in need for 144 years. From The Great War, WWII, to more recent events such as 9/11 and natural disasters, the American Red Cross has been there to provide clothes, food, shelter and even blood, to those in trying times. We would be remiss to let the day go by without acknowledging the women, and the organization, which this podcast is partly named after. Thank you Clara Barton and the ARC ☕️🍩

To learn more about the American Red Cross, click here to listen to our episode with Dr Hattie Hearn!

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American Red Cross 1 - Clara Barton

On May 21, 1881, Clara Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) creates the American Red Cross. This former teacher and patent clerk, turned heroic Civil War nurse, took inspiration from the health care movement in Europe.

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At the end of the Avengers PJ party…

Y/N carries Clara bridal style…

Clara: baby?

Y/N: yeah?

Clara: let’s have a baby

Y/N: we have three.

Clara: but you’re looking so hot tonight and we still don’t have a Nathaniel (winks)

Y/N: I’m sure Stark has another room we can borrow

Y/N guides her right back into the compound…

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If you were to choose four new Presidents to be put onto a second Mount Rushmore, who would they be? Alternatively, who are four non-Presidents that you might choose?

That's a tough one. For the Presidents on the second Mount Rushmore, I think FDR would be a no-brainer. I think I'd also add Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower -- not solely because of their Presidencies, but due to their overall importance to American history. The last spot is the hardest to decide upon. I don't think I'd choose anyone who was in office more recently than Eisenhower. Maybe John Adams or James Madison?

As for the four non-Presidents, I'd go with General George C. Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, and either Alice Paul, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, or Clara Barton.