1914 - 2018
Dovey Johnson Roundtree American Activist
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| First Name |
Dovey
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| Middle Name |
Johnson
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| Last Name |
Roundtree
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| Birthday |
17th April, 1914
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| Birthplace |
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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| Died |
21st May, 2018
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| Place of Death |
Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.
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| Zodiac Sign |
Aries
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Civil rights and criminal defense lawyer, minister, Army veteran
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| Occupation |
Activist
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| Year(s) Active |
1951-1996, 1951–1996
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Dovey Johnson Roundtree (April 17, 1914 – May 21, 2018) was an African-American civil rights activist, ordained minister, and attorney. Her 1955 victory before the Interstate Commerce Commission in the first bus desegregation case to be brought before the ICC resulted in the only explicit repudiation of the "separate but equal" doctrine in the field of interstate bus transportation by a court or federal administrative body. That case, Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company (64 MCC 769 (1955)), which Dovey Roundtree brought before the ICC with her law partner and mentor Julius Winfield Robertson, was invoked by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy during the 1961 Freedom Riders' campaign in his successful battle to compel the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce its rulings and end Jim Crow laws in public transportation.
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