"Red Cross, Double Cross": Race and America's world war II-era blood donor service

Journal of American History

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-90

  Guglielmo, Thomas A ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79956340539     PISSN: 00218723     EISSN: 19452314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/jahist/97.1.63     Document Type: Article

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