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1904-1950
Blood Researcher Whose Work Saved Lives in World War II
Blood-Transfusion Specialist.
A Medical Pioneer.
Director of the American Red Cross Blood Bank.
High Honors.
Drew's research in blood plasma won him honors, including the Spingarn Medal of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People "for the highest and noblest achievement by an American negro." Both Virginia State College and Amherst College awarded him honorary degrees. But he never became a member of the American Medical Association, because his local chapter in Washington, D.C, was segregated. Drew died in an automobile accident in North Carolina in 1950.Sources:
Roland Bertol, Charles Drew (New York: Crowell, 1970);
Herbert M. Morais, The History of the Negro in Medicine, third edition (New York: Publishers Company, 1970), pp. 107-109;
Obituary, New York Times (2 April 1950): 76;
Rinna Evelyn Wolfe, Charles Richard Drew, M.D. (New York: Watts, 1991).
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