
Fun facts for Black History Month
Did you know the first successful open-heart surgery was performed in 1893 by a black surgeon named Dr. Daniel Hale Williams? According to Columbia University, he was an American general surgeon, who in 1893 performed the first documented, successful pericardium surgery in America. He also founded Chicago's Provident Hospital, the first non-segregated hospital in the United States and also founded an associated nursing school for African Americans.

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