Programs in Action

Greenville Elementary School Greenville, AL - View reference - [To ENLARGE PICTURE, position your mouse pointer over picture.]

Mr. Jai Hill, Principal watches the students reactions and responses to the exhibit & display following the presentation. A student is fascinated pver a bag of blood plasma.

The students are viewing the Andrew J. Beard, Grannville T. Woods and Elijah McCoy's inventions to the railway industry. They are pointing at "Black Wall Street" businesses simulated by hundreds of successful black inventors and achievers on this display.

A very attentive and discipline audience assembled in the gymn for the first presentation.

The students just saw the train perform the automatic connection of it railroad car (s) made possible by Andrew J. Beard's invention. One student is pointing and reading the invention by another inventor.

A few students are taking a moment to pose with the display of inventors.

The students are gazing at the IV bag of whole blood being held by Mr. Harris that symbolizes what was used during James Cornish open heart surgery performed (the first successful human open heart surgery performed in the world) by Dr. Daniel H. Williams.

More students observes the train as it is coming around the bend after connecting another railroad car, merely by bumping them together that automatically hitched together.

This student seems stunned as he observed James Crnish, the patient that Dr. Faniel H. Williams performed the first successful human heart operation on at the provident Hospital in Chicago, IL in 1893 and that Dr. Dan founded in 1891.

These students looks hesitantly at James Cornish after the knife was removed from his chest by Dr. Dan in 1893.

The crowd advances through the display and exhibit with fascination over what they saw.

The exhibit of black achievers and the train display and "Black Wall Street".

These students are reading the simulated black businesses and observing the train display/exhibit.

The students are reading about the black businesses layouts along "Black Wall Street".

This student get's the feel of whole blood in the IV bag that was used for James Cornish after he had lost so much blood from a stab wound in his chest in 1893.

Another student get the feel of whole blood in the IV bag as other students watched the illustration of Andrew J. Beard's railroad car invention of "Jenny coupler or railroad car coupler" that automatically connected cars together.

Another student is amazed by the feel of whole blood.

The students at the rear of the display are fascinated over the centrifuge device that processed the separation of blood plasma from whole blood, a discovery that was made by Dr. Charles R. Drew.

Bernie poses with Mr. Jai Hill, School Principal.

More curosity about the feel of whole blood in the IV bag.