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Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Drew
TIL that the work of Charles Drew, a pioneer in preserving blood, led to large-scale blood bank use, U.S. blood donations to Britons in WWII, and the use of bloodmobiles. He resigned as chief of the first American Red Cross blood bank over a policy that separated the blood of black and white people.
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I’d donate blood if they let me. I can’t because I visited England for 5 months in 1991.
I used to drive a bloodmobile.
I had to check and was glad to see that he was on the right side of the separation issue.