Ferebee, Dorothy Celeste Boulding
1898-1980 · Contribution: 1920s-1960s
Physician and civil rights activist providing healthcare to underserved rural communities
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Impact on the world
Organized mobile health clinics that brought medical care, vaccinations, and health education to thousands of impoverished sharecropper families in Mississippi who otherwise had no access to a doctor.
Life & background
A physician and civil rights activist, Ferebee organized mobile health clinics through the Mississippi Health Project, bringing medical care and health education to thousands of underserved sharecropper families. She also chaired the National Council of Negro Women and was active in numerous civil rights and public health advocacy efforts.
Sources
- NLM Changing the Face of Medicine; National Women's History Museum; BlackPast.org
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