Dovey Roundtree

🗓️ May 21st

Born Dovey Mae Johnson in 1914, CPT Johnson was an officer in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and served as a recruiter during WWII. In 1943, she was forced to give up her seat to a white passenger in Miami, Florida. After the war, became an attorney and represented PFC Sarah Keys in Keys v. Carolina Coach before the Interstate Commerce Commission, the only case in American jurisprudence to explicitly reject the “separate but equal” standard established by Plessy v. Ferguson. In 1961 she became one of the first women to receive full ministerial status in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mandatory Fun:

• Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights (Algonquin, 2019)