Dovey Roundtree is quite possibly the least told story of our podcast so far, but her legacy has impacted anyone who has ever ridden public transportation in the United States.

It's almost unfathomable to believe that a girl born in her circumstances could go on to fight Jim Crow in the military and in the U.S. legal system with some of the most important cases in our country's history.

A Spelmanite, Howard Law grad, a teacher, an Army officer, an attorney and an A.M.E. ordained minister - Dovey Roundtree's career is almost too expansive to be believed.

Sources

1.   Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights by Dovey Johnson Roundtree

2.   History Chicks podcast – Dovey Johnson Roundtree episode

3.  Murder on the Towpath podcast with Soledad O’Brien

4.  Dovey Johnson Roundtree on Wikipedia

5.  NYT Obituary of DJR

6.  Brooklyn Village Pics

7.   Campus Mirror – Spelman newspaper pics

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1.    Kin by Tayari Jones

2.   Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

3.   The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

4.   Queenie by Candice Carty Williams

5.   A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierly

6.   The Family Business by Carl Weber