1958: America's blood supply desegregated

[davidfcooper]

On a C-Span book talk yesterday I learned that in 1958 President Eisenhower desegregated America's blood supply by executive order. Prior to that blood for transfusions in blood banks was segregated as "white" and "black," and the "white" blood was further segregated as "Christian" and "Hebrew."

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[anaisdjuna.livejournal.com]

So dorky!

Who cares when you're bleeding out!

[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

It shows how institutionalized this country's racism was.

[anaisdjuna.livejournal.com]

It certainly does and was.