Dovey Johnson Roundtree Biography, Books, and Similar Authors

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Dovey Johnson Roundtree

Dovey Johnson Roundtree

Dovey Johnson Roundtree Biography

Dovey Johnson Roundtree was an attorney and minister who was one of the first women to be commissioned as an Army officer and who helped win a landmark case banning segregation in interstate bus travel. She passed away in 2018 at the age of 104.



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