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

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

"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 right...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kiesel, Diane (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Ferebee, Dorothy Boulding, > 1898?-1980.
Howard University. > Health Services > Biography.
National Council of Negro Women > Biography.
African American civil rights workers > Biography.
Women civil rights workers > United States > Biography.
African American physicians > Biography.
Women physicians > United States > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Health and hygiene > History > 20th century.
Table of 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.

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