Dr. Percy Lavon Julian — the persistent chemist

Dr. Percy Lavon Julian — the persistent chemist

on the evening of Novem­ber 22, 1950, arson­ists broke into an emp­ty, new­ly pur­chased home. They splashed gaso­line on the walls and the floors of the 15 rooms with­in this house. Then they tossed a kerosene torch through the porch win­dow set­ting the house ablaze. A neigh­bor heard the com­mo­tion and looked out­side to see two men dri­ving away in a dark sedan. Why would some­thing like this hap­pen in Oak Park?

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Dr. Charles Drew and his Blood Mobiles

Dr. Charles Drew and his Blood Mobiles

The seg­re­ga­tion of blood is pre­cise­ly why, in 1942, Dr. Charles R. Drew, one of the orig­i­nal devel­op­ers in bank­ing blood, resigned from his posi­tion as appoint­ed Direc­tor of the first Amer­i­can Red Cross blood bank in charge of blood for use by the Navy and the Army.

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