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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460552003321

Autore

Kiesel Diane

Titolo

She can bring us home : Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, civil rights pioneer / / Diane Kiesel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Herndon, Virginia] : , : Potomac Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61234-758-4

1-61234-506-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Disciplina

323.092

B

Soggetti

African American civil rights workers

Women civil rights workers - United States

African American physicians

Women physicians - United States

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

African Americans - Social conditions - 20th century

African Americans - Health and hygiene - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Push, pluck, prominence and merit -- Among the favored few -- As if I had thrown a bomb into the room -- The count -- Petunia Ticklebritches -- Everything was precise -- We went, we saw, we were stunned -- Stupid, vacant, and void of hope -- As the moonlight turned barn roofs to silver -- Tell Claude Ferebee to keep his shirt on -- Madeline, my concerto -- The skipper -- Some stuff -- Every bone in the body -- A matter for grave concern -- One of the coldest winters we ever had -- As good as I could -- You were grand as ever -- A bad bitter pill -- A citizen concerned with international affairs -- Woman power -- I should not be here but I had to come -- Epilogue: going home.