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  • PLACE OF DEATH: Idlewild, Michigan
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Physician Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful heart surgery in 1893 and founded the nation's first interracial hospital.


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After graduating from Chicago Medical College, Daniel Hale Williams (born January 18, 1858) was dissatisfied with the lack of opportunity for African-American physicians, so he founded the nation's first interracial hospital, Provident, in 1891. He was al

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