Vivien Thomas And The Great Depression

Have you ever done something and somebody else took the credit for it? A guy named Vivien Thomas did something great and someone else took the credit for what he did. When Thomas was eleven he figured out that he wanted to be a doctor. Thomas worked as a carpenter to save up to go to Medical school. But when the Great Depression hit ,he lost all his life savings and could not go to college. He was looking for a job and found a job at Vanderbilt University. He worked as a lab assistant for Dr.Alfred Blalock. And was paid as a janitor, which the school thought was the best for a Black man.

Blalock and Thomas were told to figure out at cure for shock. Blalock found that Thomas was extremely talented .Thomas was working 16 hour days