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June 3rd

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  1. 1904
    The Rise

    Charles Drew born

    Charles Richard Drew is born in Washington, D.C. He becomes the first Black American to earn a Doctor of Medical Science from Columbia and designs the wartime blood-plasma protocol still in use.

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