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Dr Charles Richard Drew (1904-1950)
History
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Betsy Graves' painting seems to closely follow this photo by Robert S. Scurlock,
The … posthumous painting is the latter of two portraits of Dr. Drew completed by Reyneau. It was painted from a photograph taken by Robert S. Scurlock, a prominent Afro-American photographer in Washington, DC. Mr. Scurlock remembers that the photograph was taken in Dr. Drew’s laboratory at Freedman’s Hospital in Washington, sometime in the late 1940s.
This c. 1940 photo of Charles Drew with Laboratory Apparatus also belongs to the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and is available from NLM.
It, too, underlies a Betsy Graves Reyneau painting. The photo below of that painting appeared in Portraits of Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin Painted by Two Women Artists, by Laura Wheeler Waring and Betsy Graves Reyneau, 1943, which you can buy on Etsy.
Charles Alston covered Dr. Drew, including his athletic prowess in a WWII propaganda poster:
Charles Drew married Spelman College professor Lenore Robbins in 1938. A letter he wrote her in 1940 appeared in a Valentine's Day article in the Washington Post, in 1998. In the 1940's, they lived in t
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America’s national blood bank systems might operate very differently—or not at all—if not for African American surgeon, researcher, educator, and advocate Charles Richard Drew.
Born in 1904, Charles Drew grew up in Washington, DC. Although the city was racially segregated at that time, it hosted a vibrant African American community, and Drew was fortunate to attend an excellent public school. Drew attended Amherst College on an athletic scholarship, and later, after his eldest sister died of tuberculosis in 1920 and he was hospitalized for a college football injury, his interest turned toward medical science.
At the time, it was difficult for African Americans to pursue most medical careers. Some prominent medical schools accepted non-white students, but the opportunity was only offered to a handful of individuals. Then, after receiving their training, African American doctors faced added challenges, often because white patients would refuse care from black physicians.
Although Drew was accepted to Harvard, he attended medical school at the McGill University Faculty of Medicine in Montreal, Canada. Drew pursued his interest in transfusion medicine—the basis for his later work in blood bank research—during his internship and medical residency. Drew then joined the faculty at