One Blood The Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew

Name: One Blood The Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew
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ISBN: 9780807846827

ISBN-10: 0807846821

ISBN-13: 9780807846827

Edition: 2nd 1997

Authors: Spencie Love

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One Blood traces both the life of the famous black surgeon and blood plasma pioneer Dr. Charles Drew and the well-known legend about his death. On April 1, 1950, Drew died after an auto accident in rural North Carolina. Within hours, rumors spread: the man who helped create the first American Red Cross blood bank had bled to death because a whites-only hospital refused to treat him. Drew was in fact treated in the emergency room of the small, segregated Alamance General Hospital. Two white surgeons worked hard to save him, but he died after about an hour. In her compelling chronicle of Drew's life and death, Spencie Love shows that in a generic sense, the Drew legend is true: throughout the…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/17/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Contents


Acknowledgments


Foreword



Introduction: A Tragedy Compounded by a Myth



Death and Resurrection



Charlie Drew Is Dead



They Wouldn't Treat Him



That Black Man Who Bled to Death



The Life and Times of Charles R. Drew



Bright New Steel



The Bloods of Different Races



The Group as a Whole



Dark Myths and Wretched Superstitions



The Death of an Invisible Man



Wasn't He Riding with Dr. Drew?


Conclusion: A Dark Stone of Enlightenment


Notes


Bibliography


Index


Sections of illustrations