Some of Napa’s Early Black Pioneers
The Napa Valley Historical Society explores the lives of some of the Napa Valley's earliest Black residents in this excerpt from Alexandria Brown's thesis statement, "There Are No Black People in Napa”: A History of African Americans in Napa County
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A historically Black Los Angeles non-profit private graduate school, the Charles R. Drew University of medicine and Science formally opened its doors in January of 1970 and has operated continuously in the years since. Named for the late Charles R. Drew, an African-American physician who pioneered methods of blood preservation and transfusion, the university has has as its mission the service of the under-served residents of the Watts neighborhood and other predominantly black neighborhoods of Los Angeles, mainly through its partnership with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles.
More about the history and mission of this California institution can be found here.