who is the first african american to do open heart surgery?
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In 1893, the first successful American open-heart surgery was performed by a Black Doctor. \n\nDr. Daniel Hale Williams completed the operation on a young man named James Cornish. He had been rushed to Provident Hospital in Chicago with a stab wound.
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I have NO Idea who the first african american to be in the Rodeo hall of fame was.... But Bill Picket was the African american who invented Bulldoging..But I don't know if he was in tthe Rodeo Hall of fame!
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I'm a med student in New Jersey.  As far as education...it takes 4 years of college and 4 years of med school, then for cardiac surgery, you have to do a surgical residency which is about 5-7 years and then you have to a cardiology fellowship which is another 2-4 years.  As far as the type of person it takes...you have to be very dedicated because it takes a long time and there is a lot of information thrown at you in a short period of time.  I believe that the school I go to is an excellent school (despite the controversy going on now) but I hear that NYU has a good school and that Johns Hopkins is really good school.  Also Albert Einstein College of Medicine but any one is probably suffice if you work hard enough at your studies.  Also you don't have to major in a science in college to get in to med school..you just have to have the prerequisites.  Good luck!
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Born in Joplin, Missouri, James Langston Hughes was a member of an abolitionist family. He was the great-great-grandson of Charles Henry Langston, brother of John Mercer Langston, who was the first Black American to be elected to public office, in 1855 as a Republican. John Mercer Langston is credited with helping to steer the Ohio Republican party towards radicalism and a strong antislavery position.
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OK, it breaks down like this:\n\nIn 1904, George Poage became the first "black runner" to win an Olympic medal, a bronze in the 400 metres hurdles, but on the same day Joseph Stadler became the first "black athlete to win an Olympic medal", with a silver in the standing high jump behind the great Ray Ewry. \n\nMany sites still list Poage as being the first...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac_surgery\n\nhttp://www.hsforum.com/\n\nhttp://www.blackwellpublishing.com/cardiology/
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After being in college for almost five years Christiaan Neethling Barnard got his Master’s Degree from the University of Cape Town in 1953.\n  In the year of 1954, Chritiaan Neethling Barnard preformed the first ever successful kidney transplant and by the year 1961, he was made the head of cardio-thoracic surgery at his university, making him to be known as Dr. Barnard.
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John Mercer Langston is believed to have been the first African American elected to public office. He was elected clerk of Brownhelm in 1854.\n\nIn 1870, Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American senator. Five years later, Blanche K. Bruce of Missisppi took the oath of office.  It would be nearly another century, 1967, before Edward Brooke of Massachusetts followed in their historic footsteps. In 1993, Carol Moseley-Braun broke new ground again, becoming the first African American female to serve as U.S. senator.  When Senator Barack Obama of Illinois took the oath of office on January 3, 2005, he became the fifth African American to serve and the third to be popularly elected.\n\nHiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American senator in 1870.  Born in North Carolina in 1827, Revels attended Knox College in Illinois and later served as minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland.  He raised two black regiments during the Civil War and fought at the battle of Vicksburg in Mississippi.  The Mississippi state legislature sent him to the U.S. Senate during Reconstruction where he became an outspoken opponent of racial segregation.  Although Revels served in the Senate for just a year, he broke new ground for African Americans in Congress.  (Photo: Library of Congress)
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My church did the play "A Lesson Before Dying".This was also televised on tv.You could also pick black historians who made a difference in society.eg;Madame C.J. Walker,George Washington Caver,Eli Whitney,and Garrette A. Morgan.Read up on the accomplishments that they succeeded in life.Go to a school teacher supply store and you'll find alot of informations to help you.The public library is another source of information.
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for one African-Americans are more @ risk for heart disease because of our previous and current diets.\n\nAlso African-Americans are more @ risk for sickle cell.\n\n/doc
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check http://www.heart.org/
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richard pryor,, the original , \nHe was one of the original black comedians, who opened the door to the others to follow, great stand up comedian, and made great films.. shame he suffered from depression.
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He was Buffalo's first African American architect and a founding member of the Buffalo chapter of the NAACP.  \n\nThese websites give you a little more information.
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An African American opera singer.
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Morgan actively worked to improve the civil rights and welfare of black people. In 1920 he started publishing the Cleveland Call, a newspaper devoted to news in the black community. This newspaper, now named the Call & Post, is still published and has a large circulation in parts of Ohio. Morgan was treasurer of the Cleveland Association of Colored Men, which later merged with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He ran as an independent candidate for the City Council of Cleveland in 1931, pledging to fight for improved representation for black people in the government. \n\nIn 1943, Morgan developed the eye disease glaucoma and eventually became almost blind. He died in 1963 and is commemorated in the Cleveland Hall of Fame.
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Died during surgery  12/20/1973, to repair a faulty heart valve.\n\nHeck, can't find out who was at his side for sure, could have been both of them.
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38. Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia newspaper, with interesting articles) April 21, 1836 -- INVENTION BY A NEGRO - A patent given to 29 year-old Henry Blair of Maryland, a free colored man, for a Corn Planter machine now on exhibit at the Capitol - description of process - Blair thinks it will save the labor of eight men - he is adapting the machine for use with cotton. [NOTE: Henry Blair was the only inventor to be identified in the Patent Office records as "a colored man." Blair was born in Montgomery County, Maryland around 1807. He received a patent on October 14, 1834 for a seed planter and a patent in 1836 for a cotton planter. Henry Blair was the second black inventor to receive a patent the first was Thomas Jennings who received a patent in 1821 for a dry cleaning process. Henry Blair signed his patents with an "x" because he could not write. Henry Blair died in 1860.].\n\nImage is available at:\n\nhttp://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:f0WcIWy2gEYMlM:www.library.georgetown.edu\n\nhttp://inventors.about.com/od/blackinventors/ig/African-American-Inventors-/Henry-Blair----X8447.htm\n\nhttp://www.twinlakes.k12.in.us/info/library/connection/inventor.html\n\nmng.1432@gmail.com