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Dr. Roscoe Conkling Giles: Surgeon
Clip: 2/19/2022 | 1m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
In this week's Black History Month Spotlight, a doctor breaking barriers in medicine.
Doctor Roscoe Conkling Giles was born in 1890 in Albany, New York, but he's known in Chicago for studying at Provident Hospital, which was founded and owned by African American Doctor Daniel Hale Williams. Then at 27, he became the first African-American to lead a city health department by becoming supervisor of the Chicago Health Department.
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Chicago Tonight: Black Voices is a local public television program presented by WTTW
Chicago Tonight: Black Voices
Dr. Roscoe Conkling Giles: Surgeon
Clip: 2/19/2022 | 1m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
Doctor Roscoe Conkling Giles was born in 1890 in Albany, New York, but he's known in Chicago for studying at Provident Hospital, which was founded and owned by African American Doctor Daniel Hale Williams. Then at 27, he became the first African-American to lead a city health department by becoming supervisor of the Chicago Health Department.
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