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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.
22 Νοε 2013 · Ida Gray Nelson Rollins, the first African American female dentist, was born in Clarksville, Tennessee, on March 4, 1867. She became an orphan when her mother, Jennie Gray, died in her early teens. Rollins’ white father, whose name is unknown, played no role in her childhood or education.
In 1890, Ida Gray Nelson Rollins graduated from the University of Michigan College of Dentistry. She was one of just three women in her graduating class, and was the very first African-American woman dentist in the United States.
Gray enrolled in October 1887, and graduated in 1890, as the first Black woman to graduate with a Doctorate of Dental Surgery in the United States. Ida opened a private dental practice in Cincinnati, Ohio, and married Sanford Nelson in 1895.
At a time when women were just beginning to be accepted into medical professions, Ida Gray Nelson Rollins became the first African-American woman to earn a doctor of dental surgery degree when she graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1890.
Ida was the first Black woman to practice dentistry in Chicago. She mentored one of her patients, Olive M. Henderson, who became the second female Black dentist in Chicago. James passed away in 1926, and Ida went on to marry William Rollins, a waiter.
Ida Gray Nelson Rollins' is in the fourth row, third from the left. From the collection of the Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry, SMD 292.1890. First African-American Woman Dentist in Chicago
