This collection contains the papers of Dr. Clifton O. Dummett (1919-2011), an African-American pioneer in the field of dentistry and a professor at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Clifton Orrin Dummett (1919-2011) was an African-American pioneer in the field of dentistry and a professor at the University of Southern California. He was born in British Guyana in 1919 and studied at Howard University before receiving a B.S. from Roosevelt University in Chicago. Dummett went on to receive a D.D.S. from Northwestern University in 1941, an M.Sc.D. in periodontics from Northwestern University, and a Masters in Public Health from the University of Michigan in 1947. He was the first African-American dentist to receive a master's degree in public health.

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