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Glenwood school celebrates Black History Month

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Hickory Bend Elementary School in Glenwood on Tuesday marked Black History Month with its annual costume parade. | Supplied photo

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Updated: February 7, 2012 11:06PM



Hickory Bend Elementary School in Glenwood on Tuesday marked Black History month with its annual costume parade.

First-grader Jonathan Daniels dressed as Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, who founded Provident Hospital in Chicago and was credited with performing a prototype open-heart surgery when he successfully repaired a tear in a patient’s heart lining in 1893.

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