1943

Bowing to public pressure, American Red Cross to abandon racially separate blood transfusions. “But the blood transfusion debate had a lasting impact, putting the American system of health care and segregation on public trial. The notion that hidden dangers lay nascent in “Negro blood” or “Jewish blood,” or that special virtues existed in “Aryan blood” or “white blood,” came under an international microscope” (Wailoo III, 80).