Erma Freeman’s route to dentistry included teaching

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Before dental school

The Library of Virginia’s 2024 honoree profile traces Erma L. Freeman’s upbringing in Mecklenburg County, college study and four years teaching in Lynchburg.

It identifies her as the first Black woman to earn the Medical College of Virginia’s dental-surgery doctorate, in 1977.

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