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Dr. Ida Gray Nelson Rollins

About Dr. Rollins

at an early age she and her parents moved to

Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dental

Achievements

She was the first African American woman to graduate from the University

of Michigan Dental School. She received her DDS degree in 1890.

First African American woman in America to earn

a Doctor of Dental Surgery Degree.

She returned to Cincinnati to establish a

very successful private practice.

First African American to practice dentistry in

Chicago & mentored other African American women.

She became active in several Chicago women's organizations, and she was often singled out as an example of what African American women could accomplish.

Born on February 20, 1890 in Clarksville, Tennessee.

She died on May 3, 1953.

She attended Gaines Public High School in

Cincinnati, graduating in 1887.

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