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We work to connect alumni with FHS students at the Annual MLK Day & Basketball Game. (2025)

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DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING

His Dream is Still
Alive and Growing
in 2025...

BLACK HISTORY MOMENT...

Vivien Thomas, Heart Surgery Revolutionary

Here's an amazing story of Vivien Thomas, a former slave, who helped invent heart surgery.

With only a high school education and no formal medical training, Vivien Thomas developed surgical techniques that revolutionized heart surgery.

Thomas was the first African American without a doctorate degree and only a high school diploma, to perform open heart surgery. The patient was a white patient.

With no college education, Thomas began his career in medicine in 1930 in the laboratory of Dr. Alfred Blalock of Vanderbilt University, where Blalock trained him as his surgical assistant.

Due to the racism of the time, Thomas was ineligible to be a student or faculty member at Vanderbilt in the 1930s. Although, he did the job of a laboratory assistant, Thomas was classified and paid as a janitor.

Thomas' intelligence and outstanding ability as a researcher and surgical assistant was so impressive that Dr. Blalock requested that Thomas follow him to John Hopkins University in 1941.

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