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TIL the first successful heart surgery was performed in 1893, by a black american surgeon that opened the first black owned and operated hospital in the USA. (youtu.be)

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I found this advertisement placard in a vinyl album, and decided to play the card.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hale_Williams

Edit pictures of the card https://pixelfed.ca/p/bane_killgrind/821853386900164062

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[–] eletes@sh.itjust.works 7 points 14 hours ago

Brown skinned and for present day things I'd say race shouldn't matter... But for fucking 1893? Just 30 years after the civil war? Can you imagine the challenges they faced in society during that time? It was probably double or triple as hard to get where they were vs if a white man had followed the same path.