Charles Drew

Charles Richard Drew (June 3, 1904 – April 1, 1950) was an African American physician, surgeon, and medical researcher. Drew was born into an African American middle-class family in Washington, D.C.

Charles‘s father Richard was a chapter layer and his mother Nora Burrell, was a school teacher.  Charles and his siblings grew up in Foggy Bottom neighborhood Washington, D.C. and Charles graduated from Dunbar High School in the year of 1922. Charles won athletics scholarship to attend at Amherst College in Massachusetts. He then graduated from Amherst College in the year 1922. Charles was a great athlete and he also joined a fraternity the Omega Psi Phi.

Charles Richard Drew became first African American to earn a Doctor of Medical Science degree.

In 1939 Drew traveled to Tuskegee, Alabama, were he attend a annual fee clinic at John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital.

In the late 1940 before the World War 2, Drew help set up and administer the early prototype program for blood storage.