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She Can Bring Us Home - Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer (Paperback)
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She Can Bring Us Home - Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer (Paperback)
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List price R736
Loot Price R288
Discovery Miles 2 880
You Save R448 (61%)
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Long before it became the slogan of the presidential campaign for
Barack Obama, Dorothy Ferebee (1898-1980) lived by the motto Yes,
We Can. An African American obstetrician and civil rights activist
from Washington DC, she was descended from lawyers, journalists,
politicians, and a judge. At a time when African Americans faced
Jim Crow segregation, desperate poverty, and lynch mobs, she
advised presidents on civil rights and assisted foreign governments
on public health issues. Though articulate, visionary, talented,
and skillful at managing her publicity, she was also tragically
flawed. Ferebee was president of the Alpha Kappa Alpha black
service sorority and later became the president of the powerful
National Council of Negro Women in the nascent civil rights era.
She stood up to gun-toting plantation owners to bring health care
to sharecroppers through her Mississippi Health Project during the
Great Depression. A household name in black America for forty
years, Ferebee was also the media darling of the thriving black
press. Ironically, her fame and relevance faded as African
Americans achieved the political power for which she had fought. In
She Can Bring Us Home, Diane Kiesel tells Ferebee's extraordinary
story of struggle and personal sacrifice to a new generation.
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