Vivien Thomas: African American Here

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How would you feel if you lost all your life savings for college, a man named Vivien Thomas an African American man that wasn't even a doctor and made a design for the syndrome for blue babies. He saved a little girl named Eileen Saxon was a blue baby that is when the baby doesn't get enough oxygen because, blood cant flow through the heart. A doctor named Blalock had to do surgery because Thomas wasn't a real doctor and he was African American Here is the story of Vivien Thomas. Vivien Thomas had always wanted to be a doctor since he was eleven years old. He started to save up as he got older and got a job in high school he got a job as a carpenter. He graduated high school in 1930, but later in the years the Great Depression happened and

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