A Project of the Center for Public History at Tufts University
Inspired by the scholarship of Tufts Professor Gerald R. Gill (1948-2007) and driven by faculty and student research, the African American Trail Project is a collaborative public history initiative housed at Tufts University. The project maps African American and African-descended public history sites across greater Boston and Massachusetts. The projects aims to develop African American historical memory and intergenerational community, placing present-day struggles for justice in the context of greater Boston’s historic African American, Black Native, and diasporic communities.
Dr. Jessie Gideon Garnett (1897-1976) was the first African-American woman to graduate from Tufts School of Dental Medicine and the first to practice dentistry in Boston.
