At the closing dinner marking the retirement of Mary McLeod Bethune (center) as President of the National Council of Negro Women. Dr. Dorothy Ferebee, the second president, is shown to the left of Mrs. Bethune.

ID: 4223 ~ 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: 1809 2nd Street NW

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism - Dorothy Ferebee, Access for All: 1809 2nd Street NW

Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism - Dorothy Ferebee, Access for All: 1809 2nd Street NW

By DC Historic Preservation Office

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…