Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, 1914-2018
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Variants
- Johnson, Dovey Mae, 1914-2018
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1914-04-17
Death Date
- 2018-05-21
Has Affiliation
- Organization: African Methodist Episcopal Church
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1943
- Organization: United States. Army. Women's Army Corps
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1942
- Affiliation End: 1943
- Organization: United States. Army. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
Birth Place
- Charlotte (N.C.)
Associated Locale
- Charlotte (N.C.)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
(lcsh) United States. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.--World War, 1939-1945
Occupation
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Sources
- found: NUCMC data from National Archives for Black Women's History, Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site (Washington, D.C.) for Her Papers, 1938-1977(Roundtree, Dovey Johnson (1914- ); Afro-American lawyer and church woman, of Washington, D.C.; Women's Army Corps recruiter during WWII)
- found: New York times WWW site, viewed May 22, 2018(in obituary published May 21: Dovey Johnson Roundtree; b. Dovey Mae Johnson, Apr. 17, 1914, Charlotte, N.C.; m. William A. Roundtree, 1946 (div.); d. Monday [May 21, 2018], aged 104; barrier-breaking lawyer who won advances for black people and women at the bar of justice; graduated from law school in 1950; admitted to the District of Columbia bar the next year; as an inaugural member of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (later the Women's Army Corps), she became, in 1942, one of the first women of any race to be commissioned an Army officer; attaining the rank of captain, she personally recruited scores of African-American women for wartime Army service; after the A.M.E. Church approved the full ordination of women in 1960, she entered Howard's divinity school; ordained the next year, she took a pulpit at Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church in Anacostia while continuing to practice law)
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Change Notes
- 1996-06-22: new
- 2018-05-22: revised
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