Dovey Johnson Roundtree was an American lawyer, civil rights activist, military officer, minister, and an important figure in the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s. She was a member of the first class of Black women officers in the Women’s Army Corps, attaining the rank of captain and serving from 1943 until the end of World War II in 1945.
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