Dorothy Boulding Ferebee

Biography

Dorothy Celeste Ferebee (née Boulding; October 10, 1898 – September 14, 1980) was an American obstetrician and civil rights activist. Born in a middle-class family in Norfolk, Virginia, Boulding grew up in Boston, where she attended The English High School and Simmons College before studying medicine at Tufts University. Prevented by racism and segregation from continuing her career at Boston's white hospitals, she took a job at the Freedmen's Hospital in Washington D.C., where she became an obstetrician and promoted contraception and sex education.

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