Salem County not only has the oldest active courthouse in New Jersey, it is the birthplace of an early M.D./J.D. Born in October 1825, John S. Rock was a teacher, dentist, physician, lawyer and abolitionist and early human rights activist. Moreover, he was the first black American admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Rock was a free-born African American. Unusually for the time, he remained in school until age 18. After becoming a teacher in Salem, because of racial barriers he moved to Philadelphia to become a dental surgeon and then attended medical school.
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