AKA Mobile Health Project

Dorothy Boulding Ferebee led the project as president of Alpha Kappa Alpha, but her road to it ran through rejection. A Tufts medical graduate of 1924, ranked among the top five in her class, she was kept out of internships at white hospitals in Boston and trained instead at Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, where she promoted contraception and sex education and then opened her own clinic in an impoverished part of the city. She directed the Mississippi Health Project from 1935 to 1942 and in 1949 was elected president of the National Council of Negro Women.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mound Bayou — 0.9 mi
  The Bolivar County town founded in 1887 by men who had been enslaved at Davis Bend, built to be Black-owned, home of Taborian Hospital and a museum on Roosevelt Street.
• Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary) — 11 mi
  The state penitentiary on Sunflower County cotton land, built in 1900 as a prison plantation, where Freedom Riders were held in 1961; a working prison with no visits and a Blues Trail marker at its gate.
• Dockery Farms — 13 mi
  The plantation on the Sunflower River where Charley Patton lived and played from about 1900, now a working farm, a National Register district and a Mississippi Blues Trail stop.
• Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden — 15 mi
  The small park on Byron Street in Ruleville where Fannie Lou Hamer is buried beside her husband, with a Freedom Trail marker and a 2012 bronze statue.

More markers nearby

• Po' Monkey's — 3.4 mi
• Henry Townsend — 5.2 mi
• Margaret Wade — 9.1 mi
• Cleveland — 9.2 mi