Charles R. Drew, the man who pioneered many blood storage techniques that allowed blood banks to be able to hold blood for longer periods, an African American. They started segregating the blood supply into black blood and white blood...
He did not himself bleed to death because they denied him blood because he was black, though. So that's good.
So M*A*S*H lied. I swear in an episode (that I saw in the 70s) Hawkeye states that the man who invented blood-whatever-it-was died from hemorrhaging because he was black and they wouldn't let him into the hospital. Hmmm.
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