She Can Bring Us Home
Potomac Books Inc (Verlag)
978-1-64012-168-3 (ISBN)
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.
Ferebee was president of the Alpha Kappa Alpha black service sorority and later became the president of the powerful National Council of Negro Women in the nascent civil rights era. She stood up to gun-toting plantation owners to bring health care to sharecroppers through her Mississippi Health Project during the Great Depression.
A household name in black America for forty years, Ferebee was also the media darling of the thriving black press. Ironically, her fame and relevance faded as African Americans achieved the political power for which she had fought. In She Can Bring Us Home, Diane Kiesel tells Ferebee’s extraordinary story of struggle and personal sacrifice to a new generation.
Diane Kiesel is an acting justice of the New York State Supreme Court. A former journalist, she is a winner of the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism and is the author of Domestic Violence: Law, Policy, and Practice. She lives in New York City.
List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Compassion, Cussedness, and ClassPrologue1. Push, Pluck, Prominence, and Merit2. Among the Favored Few3. As If I Had Thrown a Bomb into the Room4. The Count5. Petunia Ticklebritches6. Everything Was Precise7. We Went, We Saw, We Were Stunned8. Stupid, Vacant, and Void of Hope9. As the Moonlight Turned Barn Roofs to Silver10. Tell Claude Ferebee to Keep His Shirt On11. Madeline, My Concerto12. The Skipper13. Some Stuff14. Every Bone in the Body15. A Matter for Grave Concern16. One of the Coldest Winters We Ever Had17. As Good as I Could18. You Were Grand as Ever19. A Bad Bitter Pill20. A Citizen Concerned with International Affairs21. Woman Power22. I Should Not Be Here but I Had to ComeEpilogue: Going HomeNotesBibliographyIndex
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.01.2019 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 41 photographs, index |
| Verlagsort | Dulles |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-64012-168-4 / 1640121684 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-64012-168-3 / 9781640121683 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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