At age eleven, she moved with her mother, two older sisters, and younger brother to the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston.

After checking to make sure she had indeed been accepted, he warned her, "You'll have to find your own patients, you know," to which she replied, "That will be just fine with me.

"[2] She opened her first dental office at the corner of Tremont and Camden Streets in Lower Roxbury.

[2] She was a member of the NAACP and the Urban League, and served on the boards of the Boston YWCA, Freedom House, and St. Mark's Congregational Church in Roxbury.

[2] (Mary Thompson was a fellow Tufts Dental School alumnus and noted humanitarian.