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She Can Bring Us Home - Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer (Hardcover)
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She Can Bring Us Home - Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer (Hardcover)
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Long before it became the slogan of the Obama campaign, Dr. Dorothy
Ferebee (1898-1980) lived by the motto "Yes, We Can." An African
American elite descended from lawyers, journalists, politicians,
and possibly a white governor of Virginia, Ferebee was an
obstetrician and civil rights activist from Washington, D.C. She
was articulate, attractive, and effective as well as relentlessly
self-promoting and tragically flawed. At a time when African
Americans faced Jim Crow segregation, menial job opportunities and
lynch mobs, Dorothy Ferebee advised presidents on civil rights and
assisted foreign governments on public health issues. In high heels
and a silk dress, she stood up to gun toting plantation owners,
determined to bring health care to sharecroppers during the Great
Depression through her famous Mississippi Health Project. She was
president of the powerful National Council of Negro Women in the
nascent civil rights era and later ran the 200,000 member Alpha
Kappa Alpha black service sorority. A household name in black
America for 40 years, known to presidents from FDR through Jimmy
Carter, Ferebee was the media darling of the thriving black press.
Ironically, her fame faded and her relevance waned as African
Americans achieved the political power for which she fought. In She
Can Bring Us Home: Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights
Pioneer, Diane Kiesel brings Ferebee's extraordinary story of
struggle and sacrifice to a new generation.
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