"The Red Cross was founded in 1881 by Clara Barton, who became famous during the Civil War for organizing the distribution of food and medical supplies to Union Army soldiers.The Red Cross is specifically mandated, according to its Congressional charter adopted in 1905, to carry out a system of national and international relief in time of peace...But who got relief after disasters has always been affected by .. racism...[D]uring the Great 1927 Flood.. the Red Cross came in to provide temporary housing and food aid. What African Americans of the Delta got was prison-like camps where they were routinely beaten by white, racist National Guardsmen. Food distributed by the Red Cross was given to whites first...On the eve of the Second World War, the Red Cross stockpiled large amounts of blood because of techniques developed by the brilliant African American scientist Dr. Charles Drew. Drew himself became director of the Red Cross's Blood Bank in 1941, but resigned his position after the War Department ordered that the blood of Black and white donors be segregated...but the Red Cross complied.
Amerikansk Røde Kors' blodbank var i 1982 og 1983 imod at screene sit blod for HIV.
220905, The Black Commentator, Issue 151, Bruce Dixon, Rescue Came from the
Grass Roots: The People, Not FEMA, Saved Themselves. "The first folks to
send a couple of vans of food and supplies was TOPS, The Ordinary Peoples
Society, a prison ministry in Dothan AL founded and staffed by
ex-offenders...That's why we tell everybody now that it was felons who were the
first to feed, the first to respond to need, the first to get up and do
something. They didn't wait for permission or for a contract. That's real
leadership." Røde Kors kritiseres for sin indsats.
Orla Jordal, 2007
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