Robert Burt

Robert Tecumseh Burt (November 25, 1873 – August 16, 1955) was an African-American medical doctor, surgeon, and teacher. He operated an infirmary and later the only hospital in Clarksville, Tennessee from 1906 to 1916.

Early life and education Robert Tecumseh Burt was born freed on November 25, 1873, in Attala County, Mississippi, to parents Sylvia (Sanders) and Robert Burt that had been enslaved. He was born in a one room dirt floor house on his grandfather's farm.

He studied at Jackson College in Columbia, Tennessee; Walden University (B.A. degree) in Nashville, Tennessee; Central Mississippi College in Kosciusko, Mississippi; Meharry Medical College (M.A. degree 1897 in Nashville, Tennessee); and he did post-graduate work at Harvard University and E.A. Printy School of Surgical Technique.

Career He moved to Clarksville in 1904, where he set up a medical practice on Third Street. Burt initially offered the facility for surgery within the African-American community,