Portrait of Dorothy Ferebee

ID: 4224 ~ 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…