Dorothy Ferebee (4th from right) with AKA sorority members at food demonstration table in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, 1940.

ID: 4279 ~ Source: Courtesy, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

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

Dorothy Ferebee (4th from right) with AKA sorority members at food demonstration table in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, 1940.

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…