"The National Negro Medical Association"(11-26-89)

Was founded,consisting of three African Americans medical

professions,they were originally called the National Negro Association of Physicians,Dentists,and Pharmacists.Meharry & Howard University faculty and alumni were instrumental in their establishment.The NNMA consisted of skilled organizations and a supportive social network for African American dentists.They were both involved in the initial inclusion of dentist in the National Negro Medical Association,various regional and state dental associations,and the later development of their own professional association,the National Dental Association (not to be confused with the earlier National Dental Association which would become the ADA.At the turn of the century they became the National Medical Association,The NMA'S manifesto was written by C.V.Roman and adopted in 1908.It reads as follow:Conceived in no spirit of racial exclusives,foster no ethnic antagonism,but born of the exigencies of America environment,the National Medical Association has for its object the banding together for mutual cooperation and helpfulness,the men & women of African decent who are legally and honorably engaged in the practice of the congnate professions of medicine,surgery,pharmacy,& dentistry."The NMA I located in Washington, D.C.