Early Life
The city where Charles Drew was born.
What is Washington, D.C.?
The procedure in which a person is given new blood.
What is a blood transfusion?
What Drew suggested sending to wounded soldiers instead of whole blood.
What is plasma?
The word in the reading that means 'separated.
What is segregated?
This word means a grant of money given to a student, often for athletic or academic achievement.
What is a scholarship?
The illness that took Drew's sister's life.
What is tuberculosis?
The liquid part of blood that Drew discovered could be stored.
What is plasma?
The organization Drew became the first director of the blood bank for.
What is the American Red Cross?
Two places mentioned where Black and white people could not be together.
What are restaurants and buses?
This word means a barrier or obstacle that must be overcome.
What is a hurdle?
The type of scholarship Drew received thanks to his athletic ability.
What is an athletic scholarship?
What Drew removed from blood in order to keep it fresh.
What are solid cells (red blood cells)?
The group that ordered the Red Cross to separate blood by race.
What is the Army?
The challenge Drew faced after college that was another barrier for African-Americans.
What is medical school?
This word describes someone who is exceptional or remarkably good.
What is outstanding?
Drew was captain of this sport in college.
What is track?
The city where Drew set up his first blood bank.
What is New York City?
What Drew did when the Red Cross refused to stop separating blood by race.
What is resign (in protest)?
Drew's famous statement about race and blood that nobody listened to.
What is 'There is no black blood or white blood. Blood is blood.'?
This word means to officially quit a position as an act of protest
What is to resign?
The country where Drew entered medical school in 1928.
What is Canada?
The biggest problem with blood transfusions before Drew's discovery.
What is keeping blood fresh to send it to faraway places?
The group that eventually persuaded the Red Cross to end its racist blood separation policy.
Who are civil rights reformers?
Throughout which entire conflict did the Red Cross continue to separate blood by race?
What is World War II?
This word describes a person who works to bring about social or political change.
What is a reformer?