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October 20, 1930
Samuel Kountz Jr., a physician and pioneer in organ transplantation, particularly renal transplant research and surgery, was born in Lexa (Phillips County). An Arkansas success story, he overcame the limitations of his childhood as an African American in the Delta region of a racially segregated state and the handicaps of inadequate early education to achieve national and world prominence in the medical field.