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Charles Richard Drew was born on June 3,1904 in his grandmother’s house in Washington D.C. His father Richard Thomas Drew was a carpet layer and the only black in the carpet and tile layer union. His mother Nora Burrell Drew was a graduate of Howard University’s Miner Normal school in Washington D.C., she was a homemaker. The Drew family lived in a small city called Foggy Bottom near Washington D.C. Charles had a brother (Joseph), and two sister’s (Nora and Elsie.) As a child he was always encouraged to take his studies seriously. As a child to get some money Charles was a newspaper boy for the “Washington Times” and the “Evening star.” Soon he becam