Charles Drew's Influence On African American

Charles Drew was born on June 3, 1904 in Washington, DC. He was an African American surgeon and researcher. He organized America’s first large-scale blood bank. He also trained black physicians at Howard University. His parents were Richard and Nora Drew. He had four siblings. His father worked as a Carpet, linoleum, and soft-tile layers Union which gave them a middle-class life. They were raised with education being the main priority. Charles was raise in an irrational neighborhood. He was raised during the racial segregation era. The Jim Crow laws were still enforced until 1965, which made Drew have many challenges throughout his life and his career. African American were not allowed to seat in front of the bus. In order, to receive an education, they had to have different schools therefore higher education was very limited. They were not allowed to use the same public bathroom. Many restaurants did not serve food to African Americans. …show more content…
He had a car accident on 1950. He suffered several injuries however the doctors were not able to same him on time. He died at the age of 46. Charles Drew made many contributions to science. He was the first African American to contribute so much to the history of medicine. Due to the Jim Crow laws, it was very hard of him to apply medicine to patience. Since, patients normally thought of their doctors as whites. Medical assistant was limited to African American and Drew wanted to change that and he became the first Black surgeon. Drew is the father of the famous blood bank. He found ways to preserve blood for a long period. While on his surgical residency he worked along with John Beattie. Beattie was a bacteriologist who was studying ways to treat shock through transfusion. Transfusion is the process of receiving blood into one’s circulation intravenously. Shock was still a medical condition that was not quite fully