American Red Cross "Statement of Policy Regarding Negro Blood Donors"

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GLC#
GLC09745.01-View header record
Type
Documents
Date
January 21, 1942
Author/Creator
American Red Cross
Title
"Statement of Policy Regarding Negro Blood Donors"
Place Written
Washington, District of Columbia
Pagination
1 p. : envelope Height: 27.2 cm, Width: 21.7 cm
Primary time period
Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
Sub-Era
World War II

One document issued by the American Red Cross, dated January 21, 1942. The document is entitled "Statement of Policy Regarding Negro Blood Donors." Outlines a new policy that facilities are now "prepared here-after to accept blood donations from colored as well as white persons." The blood will be "processed separately so that those receiving transfusions may be given plasma from blood of their own race." The policy was issued by the Chairman of the American Red Cross and the Surgeons General of the Army and the Navy and approved by the Secretaries of War and the Navy.

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