Dr. Jessie G. Garnett was the first African American female dentist in Boston, Massachusetts. She practiced for 50 years until 1970. Garnett was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, in 1897. Her father died while she was still in her youth and her mother worked as a seamstress. By the age of eleven, her mother had […]

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