THE FABULOUS DR. DAN! BY REBECCA CLARK SCHOOL: POLK DATE: 2/10/15

EARLY LIFE He had a tough time growing up, due to his father’s death. He decided to take up barbering after moving back to Illinois with his family. He was a barber, like his father.

CHILDHOOD Dr. Daniel Hale Williams ||| was born on January 18, 1856, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania to Sarah Price Williams and Daniel Hale Williams ||. The couple had several children, with the elder Daniel H. Williams ||| inheriting a barber business. He also worked with the equal rights league, a black civil rights organization active during the reconstruction era. After his father died, 10-year-old Daniel was sent to live in Baltimore with some family friends. He became a shoemaker’s apprentice. He disliked the work and moved back to his family, who moved to Illinois. Like his father, he took into barbering.

FUN FACTS! He was the first black physician. He successfully completed the first open heart surgery! He opened the first interracial hospital. His full name is Daniel Hale Williams ||| He was Henry Palmer’s apprentice.

MARRIAGE AND LATER CAREER Williams left Freedman’s Hospital in He married Alice Johnson, and the newlyweds moved to Chicago, where Williams returned to his work at Provident.

OPENS FIRST INTERRACIAL HOSPITAL Williams set up his own practice in Chicago’s Southside and taught anatomy at his alma mater, also becoming the first African-American physician to work for the city’s street railway system.

HOW I CAN RELATE TO THIS PERSON? Well, I would open an interracial hospital if I could. Stand against racism man. I believe it would need to change if there were hospitals everywhere declining black staff.

WHY IS HE WORTHY OF COMPARISON TO SOMEONE IN MY LIFE? He is a genius He took up an entire education He was very serious His dad died

WHAT I LEARNED I learned who the first black physician was. I learned who completed the first open heart surgery I learned who opened the first interracial hospital. I learned who got the first open heart surgery.

SOURCES African-americaninventors.com Biography.com Encyclopedia (Provided by Mrs. Dugger)

BONUS QUIZ!! Who was the first man to get the open heart surgery? What was the name of the hospital Dr. Dan left in 1898? Did he have any children? Who did he marry? Where did he move after he got married?

GOODBYE!