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Dental degrees, teaching authority and community practice
Expanded history9 sourced episodes
Black dentists earned credentials, built practices, challenged professional exclusion and led the institutions training the next generation. A degree, a faculty appointment, a clinic leadership role and an association decision each opened a different door.
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Nine episodes connect named dentists to Harvard, Howard, Michigan, Meharry and the USC–Watts program, alongside Black professional organizing. An institutional appointment is not proof of a connection to your clinic; licensing and current workplace links still require their own records.
Supports Goldhaber’s recruitment, Henry’s posts and the memorial’s account of retaining the program.
Where to look June 4, 2013; 1975 recruitment and 1990–1991 interim-dean paragraphs
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Meharry Medical CollegeNashville, TN
Start date undocumented
Dental education at Meharry
Meharry’s School of Dentistry identifies Black dental practitioners among those it seeks to mentor and train. Its current mission and program page lists general practice and pediatric dentistry residencies but does not date the start of those opportunities.
Where the connection stops The mission and program list do not establish when a person trained, qualified or was hired.
Howard and Meharry established dental schools serving Black students during segregation. Their training programs gave students direct access to clinical instruction and credentials that other institutions often denied them.
Dental schools evaluate applicants for admission. State boards separately determine eligibility to practice, including education and examination requirements.
These figures describe the published dentist occupation. A separate measure would be needed for your specific job title.
Employed workforce
Black maleBlack female
Coverage 2006–2024. Dots mark reported years. Gaps stay open.
2006–2024 definition. Dentists, all specialties. Black or African American alone (RAC1P=2), any Hispanic origin or birthplace. Denominator: all U.S. civilian employed people age 16+ in this occupation (ESR=1 or 2; 50 states and DC). Weighted by ACS person weight PWGTP. OCCP: 3010.
Dentists, all specialties. Black or African American alone (RAC1P=2), any Hispanic origin or birthplace. Denominator: all U.S. civilian employed people age 16+ in this occupation (ESR=1 or 2; 50 states and DC). Weighted by ACS person weight PWGTP. OCCP: 3010.
Coverage 1990–1990. Dots mark reported years. Gaps stay open.
1990 definition. Dentists. People age 16+ in the U.S. civilian labor force classified in the named occupation, including experienced unemployed. Black, single reported race, any Hispanic origin or birthplace. Share of all people in those rows, male and female combined. Published decennial sample estimates.
Dentists. People age 16+ in the U.S. civilian labor force classified in the named occupation, including experienced unemployed. Black, single reported race, any Hispanic origin or birthplace. Share of all people in those rows, male and female combined. Published decennial sample estimates.
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