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
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.
"A monumental work. . . . She Can Bring Us Home expertly recovers
the life of this forgotten giant in advocacy of civil rights,
health care, women's rights, and educational equality."—Cassandra
Newby-Alexander, Virginia Magazine
“An impressive biography of Dorothy Ferebee. Readers will learn
much not only about Dr. Ferebee’s life, but also about the era in
which she lived.”—Debra Newman Ham, Journal of African American
History
"She Can Bring Us Home is an engaging study of an African American
woman physician whose deserves to be better known in medical
history."—Susan L. Smith, Journal of the History of Medicine
"An anomaly in her own time, the ambitious, professionally
successful Ferebee might have felt more at home in the 21st
century, when her ideals of racial and gender equality, as well as
her struggles to balance work and family, resonate more broadly in
our culture. Kiesel does readers a great service by revealing the
struggles and triumphs of this remarkable woman."—Chris Myers Asch,
Washington History
“This lovingly crafted biography brings to life the remarkable tale
of a powerful but overlooked twentieth-century advocate for women
and racial equality. Born at the end of the nineteenth century, the
descendant of slaves who fled to Boston, Dorothy Ferebee took her
Tufts Medical School diploma to the nation’s capital to serve the
neglected needs of African Americans living in poverty. . . . In
Judge Diane Kiesel’s capable hands, Ferebee’s life as a national
civil rights leader is given long-overdue recognition.”—James
McGrath Morris, author of Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the
First Lady of the Black Press
“Dorothy Ferebee—ground-breaking physician, civil rights champion,
feminist advocate—was a legend in her own time but is largely
unknown in ours. Now Diane Kiesel brings alive this extraordinary
woman whose private life was as tortured and heartbreaking as her
public persona was exemplary and heroic. A compulsively readable
exploration of the price women pay for greatness.”—Ellen Feldman,
author of The Unwitting and Scottsboro
“This meticulous account of the life of one of twentieth-century
America’s most influential African American women, a doctor whose
contributions to public health, civil rights, and women’s
reproductive freedom were vast, is long overdue. . . . In this
engrossing work of investigative biography Diane Kiesel reveals
that success was achieved at great personal cost and masked a
secret tragedy.”—Nina Burleigh, author of The Fatal Gift of Beauty:
The Trials of Amanda Knox
"Kiesel is a fine writer. . . . [Her] reporting on and writing
about Boulding [Ferebee] will cause you to reflect about where this
country has been and the directions in which it has been going. . .
. The author's painstaking research and clear narrative style does
her subject justice. It is an engaging and enjoyable
read."—Laura Ward, New York Law Journal
"She Can Bring Us Home is a impressive biography of Dorothy
Ferebee. Readers will learn much not only about Dr. Ferebee's life,
but also about the era in which she lived."—Debra Newman
Ham, Journal of African American History
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