Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee

Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee (10 October 1898 – 14 September 1980) was an African-American physician and activist. 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...