Medicine
Charles Drew
1904 – 1950
Amherst College. McGill Medical School. Pioneer of large-scale blood plasma preservation and banking. Established the first American Red Cross Blood Bank during World War II. Resigned in protest of military policy requiring segregated blood supplies, a policy without any medical basis.
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