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Vivien Thomas: The Man Who Overcame Racism to Save Millions of Lives

By Jan Pottker
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By Jan Pottker
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This is the authentic story of Vivien Thomas, a true unsung American hero.

Vivien Thomas was born in one of the poorest communities in the South in 1910, but his father was an ambitious master carpenter. The family moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where Vivien graduated from an excellent segregated Southern high school that kick-started his ambition to work in medicine. Despite all the odds against this Southern Black man, including his never having attended college, Thomas would make medical ...

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Social SciencesBiographyAfrican AmericansAfrican American Biography & MemoirPeoples & Cultures - BiographyAfrican American BiographyAfrican American General Biography