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Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry

Repository

The Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry


Address

University of Maryland
31 South Greene Street
Baltimore, MD 21201


Telephone

(410) 706-0600


Fax Number

(410) 706-8313


Website

https://www.dental.umaryland.edu/museum/index.php


Contact Person

Dr. Swank Scott, DDS


email

sswank@dentalmuseum.umaryland.edu


Abstract

The Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry is currently presenting the exhibition The Future is Now! African Americans in Dentistry. The exhibition will be in place at the museum until August 2004, at which time the exhibition will begin traveling to various sites around the country through 2006. Relevant holdings in the museum's library and archives comprise seven African American dental history books, a small amount of archive material, a few pictures, general dental history texts, and reference guides.


title/date
  • Black Dentistry in the 21st Century, Michael E. Rozzoog & Emerson Robinson, eds. National Conference held at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry June 23-27, 1991.
  • Profile of the Negro in American Dentistry, Foster Kidd, ed. Howard University Press, 1979.
  • The Growth and Development of the Negro in Dentistry in the United States, Clifton O. Dummett, National Dental Association, 1952.
  • Afro-American in Dentistry: Sequence of Consequences and Events, Clifton O. Dummett & Lois Doyle Dummett, 1978.
  • NDA II: The Story of America's Second National Dental Association, Clifton O. Dummett & Lois Doyle Dummett, National Dental Association Foundation, 2000.
  • Charles Edwin Bentley: A Model For All Times, Clifton O. Dummett & Lois Doyle Dummett, North Central Publishing Co., 1982.
  • Dental Education at Meharry Medical College, Clifton O. Dummett & Lois Doyle Dummett, Meharry Medical College, 1992.

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