#BlackHistoryMonth fact of the day. Ever needed blood? Thank Black Dr. Charles R. Drew known today as the "father of blood banking." Dr. Drew was the first Black to earn a medical doctorate from Columbia University. 1/2
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He also was the one to discover that plasma stored better than blood and could be used in transfusions. He then set up the first blood banks, The American red cross. He left the American Red Cross when he learned they planned to segregate white and black blood. 2/2
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