Dr. David D. Foote

David D. Foote (1879-1967) was educated in Vicksburg public schools, graduated from Straight University, and earned a degree in dentistry from Howard University in 1906. Returning to Vicksburg, he was among the first licensed Black dentists in Mississippi. Along with other Black professionals, he was active in protesting Jim Crow laws of the World War I period. To fight discrimination, Foote hosted a meeting at his home where Mississippi's first branch of the NAACP was founded in 1918. He was its first president.

Vicksburg, Mississippi · United States