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Mary Jane Watkins (dentist) was born on 27 September, 1902 in Columbia, Tennessee, U.S., is an actress. Discover Mary Jane Watkins (dentist)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?
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Dentist · actress |
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75 years old |
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Libra |
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27 September, 1902 |
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27 September |
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Columbia, Tennessee, U.S. |
Date of death |
(1977-01-11) Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
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Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
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United States |
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Mary Jane Watkins (dentist) Height, Weight & Measurements
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Mary Jane Watkins (dentist) Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Mary Jane Watkins (dentist) worth at the age of 75 years old? Mary Jane Watkins (dentist)’s income source is mostly from being a successful actress. She is from United States. We have estimated
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Watkins was briefly rumored to be a love interest of aviator Hubert Julian. She died in Detroit in 1977, aged 74 years, at the home she shared with her sister, Christina Watkins Bishop.
She joined the Women's Army Corps in 1942, becoming one of the first Black women to serve in that corps. In 1960, she spent a year practicing dentistry in Enugu, Nigeria. She taught at the Guggenheim Clinic in New York in the 1960s, training international students in dentistry. From 1964 to 1966, she was vice-president of the North Harlem Dental Society, and in 1965 she was president of the Association of Women Dentists of New York City. She had a dental practice in New York until she retired in 1972.
Watkins moved to New York City in 1927; she lived in Harlem and was active in the YWCA, the Business and Professional Women's Club, and other organizations there. In 1930, she and Zora Neale Hurston were among the guests at a reception for West African businessman Winfried Tete-Ansa, held by the Plainfield Negro History Club in New Jersey.
Watkins lived in Pittsburgh after dental school, and in 1926 was secretary of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Howard University alumni association. She coached a girls' basketball team; activist Dorothy Height was one of her players. She was also a local tennis champion.
Watkins was born in Columbia, Tennessee, the daughter of John Watkins and Maggie Watkins. As a young woman at Morgan College, she and writer Zora Neale Hurston were school friends; Hurston recalled Watkins as "the most sex-appealing thing, with her lush figure and big eyes and soft skin". After Morgan, Watkins attended Howard University, where she graduated from the School of Dentistry in 1924, the only woman in her class. She also played basketball and tennis at Howard, and was founder and president of the Rho Psi Phi, the first Black medical sorority.
Watkins was also an actress as a young woman, appearing in the Oscar Micheaux silent film Deceit (1923), and the Bud Pollard sound film The Black King (1932). She also appeared in a musical comedies, including Ol' Man Satan (1932) at the Forrest Theatre and Ham's Daughter (1932) at the Lafayette Theatre.
Mary Jane Watkins (September 27, 1902 – January 11, 1977) was an American actress and dentist, and one of the first Black women to serve in the Women's Army Corps.