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The Story of Rural Health

A tall, Black woman with grey hair in a black dress poses with a shorter, lighter-skinned woman, also wearing black and adorning a ribbon.
Mary McLeod Bethune and Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee (1949). (Photo: NPS / NABWH)

The Southeast Neighborhood House founded to provide health care for impoverished Black people.

1929

The Story of Rural Health
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Mary McLeod Bethune and Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee (1949). (Photo: NPS / NABWH)

Dr. Dorothy Ferebee, a Black physician in D.C., establishes the Southeast Neighborhood House. Ferebee also sets up the Southeast Neighborhood Society, which has a playground and daycare for the children of working mothers. She organizes with the Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) sorority to bring health care to poor Black people in rural Mississippi.