Overview
- His family announced his death at age 101, and a memorial service will be set at a later date.
- He became the first Black obstetrician at Milwaukee’s St. Joseph’s and Mount Sinai hospitals.
- Over a career spanning more than five decades, he delivered thousands of babies.
- A Morehouse College classmate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he joined civil-rights marches.
- He helped found North Milwaukee State Bank to boost financial literacy, and the city honored him in 2023 by renaming a 2.5-mile stretch of Fifth Street.