Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee, MD — public health, obstetrics and gynecology
Courtesy Dorothy Ferebee Collection, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University
Dr. Dorothy Ferebee (1898–1980), center, was a tireless advocate for racial equality and women’s health care. As the medical director for the Mississippi Health Project in the 1930s, Dr. Ferebee brought state and federal resources to poor African Americans in the rural South. She was the founding president of the Women’s Institute, an organization that serves educational, community, government, and non-profit organizations, as well as individual patients.
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