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Did You Know These 15 Trailblazers Are Non-Honorary Members Of Alpha Kappa Alpha?
DR. DOROTHY FEREBEE – A physician and activist, Ferebee graduated from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, and Tufts University Medical School.
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In addition to being the longtime Director of Health Services at Howard University Medical School, she was the first Medical Director for the Mississippi Health Project, which has been cited by Thomas J. Ward, Jr., in his book, Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South, as “…one the most impressive examples of voluntary public health work ever conducted by black physicians in the Jim Crow South, touching thousands of black Mississippians at a time when they had virtually no access to professional medical care.”
