LOUISVILLE’S FIRST BLACK CHAMP

LOUISVILLE’S FIRST BLACK CHAMP

In 1872, Canadian-born Henry Fitzbutler was the first black graduate of the University of Michigan’s Medical School. Prior to graduating the U of M, he was Detroit’s first black medical student. Dr. Fitzbutler’s road to success and humanitarianism did not come easy, his father was enslaved and mother was an indentured servant from England who had escaped to…