Jewal Mazique, an African American worker at the Library of Congress, giving her blood for plasma in 1944. Under Red Cross rules, which remained in place throughout World War II, her blood could only be transfused into other African Americans.
Jewal Mazique, an African American worker at the Library of Congress, giving her blood for plasma in 1944. Under Red Cross rules, which remained in place throughout World War II, her blood could only be transfused into other African Americans.