Dovey Johnson Roundtree

Dovey Johnson Roundtree- Born Dovey Mae Johnson, on April 17, 1914, in Charlotte, North Carolina, She Died on May 21, 2018 (aged 104)
in Charlotte, North Carolina.

She was an African-American civil rights activist, ordained minister, army vertern and attorney.

Mrs Roundtree was a protégé of the Black activist and educator Mary McLeod Bethune, Roundtree was selected by Bethune for the first class of African-American women to be trained as officers in the newly created Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (later the Women's Army Corps) during World War II.

NEW YORK (AP) December 3, 2018
A memoir by the late civil-rights activist Dovey Johnson Roundtree is being reissued, and a film version is in the works.

Algonquin Books announced Monday that a 10th-anniversary edition of Roundtree's "Mighty Justice" is coming out next November. Co-written by Katie McCabe, the book was originally called "Justice Older Than the Law" and was praised by Michelle Obama, among others. Meanwhile, Roaring Brook Press plans middle grade and picture book versions and film rights were acquired by Red Crown Productions, with Octavia Spencer as executive producer.

Roundtree, who died in May at age 104, was a groundbreaking attorney and minister and the inspiration for Cicely Tyson's idealistic Southern lawyer in the 1990s TV series "Sweet Justice."

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