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The Mississippi Health Project II: AKA Revisits Its Model for Community Health Care

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Revisits the Mississippi Delta

Sign for the Mississippi Health Project II

Sign for the Mississippi Health Project II

It’s do or die for us. We’re in an area that’s often overlooked, that’s underserved. So as a service organization, we’re here to serve. . . . If we can save one life from this, we will have achieved our goal.

Glenda Glover, International President and CEO of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Video interview in Mississippi, June 7, 2021

Onsite in the Delta, June 2021

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AKA’s Mississippi Health Project: A New Model for Community Medical Care

Dr. Dorothy Ferebee gives blood test to a woman during AKA’s Mississippi Health Project, 1938

Dr. Dorothy Ferebee gives blood test to a woman during AKA’s Mississippi Health Project, 1938

A member of AKA’s volunteer medical team immunizes children against diphtheria during sorority’s summer health clinic in the Mississippi Delta, 1938

Charter members of the Rho Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha; Ida Louise Jackson, center

Dr. Dorothy Ferebee and Mississippi Health Project staff, 1937

Dr. Dorothy Ferebee

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