Social Networking can allow for various paths to cross. Recently an author asked to be my friend on Facebook. We had a mutual friend, so I went ahead and friend ed the person.
The person is author Katie McCabe, who has co-written a book with Dovey Johnson Roundtree.
Justice Older than the Law: the Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree
by Katie McCabe and Dovey Johnson Roundtree
Winner, 2009 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize,
Winner, 2009 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize,
Association of Black Women Historians.
Highlights of the book on The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree:
- She led the charge for justice in the segregated courthouses of the Nation's Capital.
- She shattered Jim Crow in interstate travel with a landmark bus desegregation case.
- She changed the racial face of the Army during World War II.
- She became the legal voice for Washington's black poor and a mentor to two generations of African American attorneys who followed her into the courtroom.
"It is on the shoulders of people like Dovey Johnson Roundtree that we stand
today," the First Lady said, "and it is with her commitment to our core ideals
that we will continue moving toward a better tomorrow." ~ First Lady
Michelle Obama
Who Is My Neighbor
I am thrilled and honored to have the book I co-authored with Dovey Johnson Roundtree featured on your blog. Iowa holds a very special place in African American history, as you know, and also in Dovey Roundtree's life, since it was at Fort Des Moines that she trained as an officer in the newly formed Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942. She was one of the 40 African American women selected by the great activist Mary McLeod Bethune to break the color bar in the military. I was delighted to be invited to Fort Des Moines this past October to present the book and Dovey's life to Iowans, and I'll be returning on March 20 to do so again at Fort Des Moines. I hope to see many of you all at that event.
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