Charles Drew

North Carolina · connected1904–1950

American surgeon and medical researcher (1904–1950)

Died in Burlington

physician, surgeon, university teacher

Recorded without a firm citation

Kept here, labelled, rather than mixed in above.

I feel that the recent ruling of the United States Army and Navy regarding the refusal of colored blood donors is an indefensible one from any point of view. As you know, there is no scientific basis for the separation of the bloods of different races except on the basis of the individual blood types or groups.(1942)