Dorothy Ferebee (left) joined fellow members of the National Council of Negro Women in lobbying Congress at the US Capitol.

ID: 4225 ~ Source: National Park Service, Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, National Archives for Black Women’s History

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism - Dorothy Ferebee, Access for All

Dorothy Ferebee (left) joined fellow members of the National Council of Negro Women in lobbying Congress at the US Capitol.

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism - Dorothy Ferebee, Access for All

Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism - Dorothy Ferebee, Access for All

On her way to becoming a nationally renowned public health and civil rights activist in the 1940s, Dorothy Boulding Ferebee (1898-1980) moved to DC in 1925 for an internship at Howard University's Freedmen's Hospital. She had been among the top five…