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

Diane Kiesel, "She Can Bring Us Home: Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer"
English | ISBN: 1612345050 | 2015 | 408 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
Long before it became the slogan of the presidential campaign for Barack Obama, Dorothy Ferebee (1898-1980) lived by the motto YES, WE CAN. An African American obstetrician and civil rights activist from Washington DC, she was descended from lawyers, journalists, politicians, and a judge. At a time when African Americans faced Jim Crow segregation, desperate poverty, and lynch mobs, she advised presidents on civil rights and assisted foreign governments on public health issues. Though articulate, visionary, talented, and skillful at managing her publicity, she was also tragically flawed.