Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee
| Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee | |
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| Born | Dorothy Celeste Boulding October 10, 1898 Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Fields | Obstetrics, gynecology |
| Institutions | Howard University Medical School Women's Institute Mississippi Health Project Alpha Kappa Alpha |
| Alma mater | Simmons College Tufts University Medical School |
Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee (October 10, 1898 – September 14, 1980) was an African-American physician and activist.[1]
Biography
Early years
Ferebee was born to Benjamin and Florence Boulding in Norfolk, Virginia. When her mother became ill Dorothy went to live with a great-aunt in Boston, Massachusetts. Dorothy graduated from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, and Tufts University Medical School.
Career
Ferebee was instrumental in establishing the Southeast Neighborhood House, an adjunct of the whites-only Friendship House medical center, to provide medical care and other community services to African-Americans in Washington, D.C. She also served as the first medical director for the Mississippi Health Project, "a seven year program stands as one the most impressive examples of voluntary public health work ever conducted by black physicians in the Jim Crow South, touching thousands of black Mississippians at a time when they had virtually no access to professional medical care".[2]
Ferebee served as the tenth International President of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority from 1939 until 1941. She then served as the second president of the National Council of Negro Women, from 1949 to 1953, succeeding its founder, Mary McLeod Bethune. She also served as the director of health services at Howard University Medical School from 1949 until 1968. From 1969 to 1972, Dr. Ferebee served at the national fourth vice president of Girl Scouts of the United States of America.
She was the first recipient, in 1959, of Simmons College's Alumnae Achievement Award. The college also awards several scholarships in her name each year.
Personal life
Ferebee was married in 1930 to a dentist, Claude Thurston Ferebee. He was a Howard University College of Dentistry professor, with whom she had twins, Dorothy and Claude Jr. Ferebee died on September 14, 1980, in Washington D.C.[3]
References
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External links
- Pages with broken file links
- 1898 births
- 1980 deaths
- African-American physicians
- American women physicians
- American gynecologists
- American obstetricians
- American women activists
- Howard University faculty
- People from Norfolk, Virginia
- Simmons College (Massachusetts) alumni
- Tufts University School of Medicine alumni
- 20th-century African-American activists
