Black History

Charles Richard Drew 1904/1950

Renowned surgeon and pioneer in the preservation of Life serving blood plasma. Working doing a time when there was a separation between blood from Whites and Blacks.

Referred to as Father of Blood Banks, organizer of the nation's first large scale blood banks.
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Richard-Drew

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bijouxbroussard · F

In the 1960s a school here was named after Dr. Drew. His widow, M. Lenore Drew, stayed with us during her visit. She was a friend of my mother’s family.

It was she who told us that the story of Dr. Drew’s death occurring because of a white hospital refusing to treat him (after his car crash) was not fact.

He was taken to a hospital and treated immediately, but was too badly injured.

Charity · 70-79

@bijouxbroussard

I don't know, I can only say in the early 1960s, 10 years after the death of Dr Drew Black still were not allowed in white hospitals for treatment, only one hospital had one set up in Black neighborhoods..... And we also had one of own Black hospitals and clinic, first call Negro hospital later Riverside hospital.

Example here in Houston Hermann had a hospital, more like a clinic set up for Blacks in the Black neighborhood as well as white. Blacks were taken to the Black hospital.

The only hospital that received both black and white and they did so keeping the people separate was the county hospital Ben Taub.

I can bear witness, even though a child.

bijouxbroussard · F

@Charity Trust me, I remember this. I was once thrown bodily out of a segregated southern Woolworth’s as a child.

I’m just saying that the popular account of Dr. Drew’s death specifically occurring because of mistreatment, was false, according to his widow.

Not saying that such things didn’t happen, because they certainly did.