Research Catalog

Title

She Can Bring Us Home : Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer / Diane Kiesel.

Author

Kiesel, Diane

Publication

Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2015]

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Details

Description

xxiii, 352 pages, 31 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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"--Publisher's description.

Subjects

• African American civil rights workers > Biography
• African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century
• Ferebee, Dorothy Boulding, 1898?-1980
• Women civil rights workers > United States > Biography
• African American physicians > Biography
• National Council of Negro Women Biography
• Women physicians > United States > Biography
• Howard University > Health Services > Biography
• African Americans > Health and hygiene > History > 20th century
• African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-338) and index.

Contents

Push, pluck, prominence and merit -- Among the favored few -- As if I had thrown a bomb into the room -- The count -- Petunia Ticklebritches -- Everything was precise -- We went, we saw, we were stunned -- Stupid, vacant, and void of hope -- As the moonlight turned barn roofs to silver -- Tell Claude Ferebee to keep his shirt on -- Madeline, my concerto -- The skipper -- Some stuff -- Every bone in the body -- A matter for grave concern -- One of the coldest winters we ever had -- As good as I could -- You were grand as ever -- A bad bitter pill -- A citizen concerned with international affairs -- Woman power -- I should not be here but I had to come -- Epilogue: going home.

Call Number

Sc E 16-581

ISBN

• 9781612345055
• 1612345050
• 9781612345062 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781612347585 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781612347592 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2015002751
• 40025127664

OCLC

900445692

Author

Kiesel, Diane, author.

Title

She Can Bring Us Home : Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer / Diane Kiesel.

Publisher

Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2015]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-338) and index.

Other Standard Identifier

40025127664

Research Call Number

Sc E 16-581

JFE 16-2686