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Ida Gray (also known as Ida Gray Nelson and Ida Rollins; March 4, 1867 – May 3, 1953) was the first African-American woman to become a dentist in the United States. [1]At a very young age she became an orphan when her parents died.
Robert Tanner Freeman (c. 1846–1873) was an American dentist. As one of the first six students to attend the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, he became the first African American to graduate with a dental degree in the United States on March 10, 1869. He subsequently practiced dentistry in Washington, D.C. [1]
Earl W. Renfroe – broke barriers for African Americans, headed a dentistry department; Charles Richard – Canadian politician; Jessica Rickert - the first female American Indian dentist in America; Ida Rollins - the first African-American woman to earn a dental degree in the United States, which she earned from the University of Michigan
Earl Wiley Renfroe (January 9, 1907 – November 14, 2000) was and African-American dentist known as an innovator in the field of orthodontics and for breaking down the barriers of racism. Renfroe taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry from 1933 through the 1980s.
Thomas Elkins (1818 – August 10, 1900) [1] was an African-American dentist, abolitionist, surgeon, pharmacist, and inventor. He lived in Albany, New York, for most of his life, but travelled during his service as the medical examiner of the 54th and 55th Massachusetts infantries and visited Liberia. Notable inventions include patented ...
Golf tee patent, granted December 12, 1899. George Franklin Grant (September 15, 1846 – August 21, 1910) was the first African-American professor at Harvard.He was also a Boston dentist, and an inventor of an early composite golf tee made from wood and natural rubber (specifically, gutta-percha) tubing.
John Stewart Rock (October 13, 1825 – December 3, 1866) was an American teacher, doctor, dentist, lawyer and abolitionist, historically associated with the coining of the term "black is beautiful" (thought to have originated from a speech he made in 1858, however historical records now indicate he never actually used the specific phrase on that day). [5]
Marie Imogene Williams (born 5 November 1870) was an American dentist and teacher, the first African American female dentist to graduate from Howard University's dental school, in 1896. [1] [2] [3] [4]