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Dr. Robert Tanner Freeman First African-American Dentist

Dr. Robert Tanner Freeman First African-American Dentist

Robert Tanner Freeman was the first Black professionally trained dentist in the United States. He was a child of enslaved people, and would eventually attend Harvard University and graduated four years after the end of the Civil War on May 18, 1869. His parents took the surname “Freeman” along with many other did after they […]