| Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee | |
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| Born | Dorothy Celeste Boulding 10 October 1898 Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | 14 September 1980 (aged 81) 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 (10 October 1898 – 14 September 1980) was an African-American physician and activist.[1]
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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.
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, which deployed mobile medical units throughout impoverished regions of the deep South.
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.
Ferebee was married in 1930 to dentist, Claude Thurston Ferebee, 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.[2]
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