My Grandmother, the Segregated Trolley, and Me

In this excerpt from the late civil rights lawyer Dovey Johnson Roundtree’s memoir, we learn about her early brush with Jim Crow

Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe
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10 min readNov 6, 2019

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A lawyer and unsung hero of the civil rights movement, Dovey Johnson Roundtree successfully helped desegregate interstate bus travel in 1955. She famously defended Raymond

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Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe
ZORA
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Dovey Roundtree was a civil rights attorney and minister. She co-wrote Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights with National Magazine Award winner Katie McCabe.