Editing Charles R. Drew (section)

==American Red Cross Blood Bank==

Drew's work led to his appointment as director of the first [[American Red Cross]] Blood Bank in February 1941.  He also invented what would be later known as [[bloodmobile]]s, mobile donation stations that could collect the blood and refrigerate it; this allowed for greater mobility in terms of transportation and increased prospective donations.<ref name=SDBB>{{cite web|url=https://www.sandiegobloodbank.org/who-invented-bloodmobiles-discover-legacy-dr-charles-drew|title=The Father of Blood Banking: Dr. Charles R. Drew|work=San Diego Blood Bank |date=31 January 2019 |access-date=May 19, 2023}}</ref> The blood bank supplied blood to the U.S. Army and Navy, who initially rejected the blood of African-Americans and later accepted it only if it were stored separately from that of Whites.<ref name=SDBB/> Drew objected to the exclusion of African-Americans' blood from plasma-supply networks, and in 1942 he resigned in protest.<ref name="cdrewedu">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cdrewu.edu/about-cdu/about-dr-charles-r-drew|title = Charles R. Drew, MD &#124; Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science}}</ref>