ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - On Tuesday, Albany Technical College (ATC) held a dedication ceremony for the first Black surgeon, Dr. Walter Carl Gordon Jr. The school renamed its surgical technology lab ...

In 1943, he became the first black surgeon to be an examiner for the American ... and performed the world's first successful heart surgery, in 1893. Williams was born in 1858 in Hollidaysburg ...