During His Lifetime

He was director of the first American Red Cross effort to collect and bank blood on a large scale. In 1942, a year after he was made a diplomat of surgery by the American Board of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University, he became the first African American surgeon to serve as an examiner on the board. He protested against the practice of racial segregation in the donation of blood, he was fired because if it.

Family

He got married to Minnie Lenore Robbins, a professor of home economics at Spelman College, in 1939 and had three daughters and one son.

Death

Died on April 1,1950 from a car accident near Burlington, NC.