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Article: 1st black medical school alumnus dies.
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- Journal-World (Lawrence, Kansas)
- Article date:
- January 5, 2007
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Byline: Sophia Maines
Jan. 5--Edward Williams, the Ellsworth native who became the first black graduate of the Kansas University School of Medicine in 1941, died Sunday in Muskegon, Mich. He was 94.
"He said he really wasn't thinking about being the first; he just really wanted to be a doctor," said Jacquie Rhodes, Williams' niece.
Williams was born May 13, 1912, in the small town of Ellsworth, the second of four children.
In school, he excelled in athletics and academics, Rhodes said. He ran track and was a pole vaulter. He was the valedictorian of his graduating class.
His first love was classical piano, but thinking that ...