Hart, George L., 110
Hawkins, Bessie E., 123, 165
Hayes, George E. C., 82
Hedgeman, Anna Arnold, 69, 101
Height, Dorothy I., 172
Hendon, Ira M. and Belle, 76–77
Hitler, Adolf, 43, 62
Hobby, Oveta Culp, 45–46, 50
Hoffman, Clare Eugene, 44
Holmes, Alice Carey, 24
Holmes, Hamilton Mayor Sr., 24
housing, discrimination in, 101
Houston, Charles Hamilton, 79–81
Howard Law Review, 83
Howard University, 36, 79
Howard University Law School, 75, 79–84
Dovey’s graduation from, 83–84
Hunter, Jerry, 110, 118
Hurley, Bailey C., 21–22, 32, 66
Hurley, Bailey C. Jr., 21–22, 25
Hurley, Margaret, 21–22, 25, 30, 32, 66
influenza pandemic (1918–1919), 10–11
Interstate Commerce Act, 93
Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), 94, 95, 97–98
interstate transportation, 93–95, 97
Ivey, Dillie Boyd, 57
Jane Crow, 74
Janney, Peter, 115–16, 117, 140
Mary’s Mosaic, 110
Japan, in World War II, 44
Jenkins, Howard, 82
Jim Crow:
activism against, 36, 80, 81, 96, 97
in the air vs. on the ground, 97
Civil Rights Act (1964) vs., 102
and defense industry, 38–39, 67–68
Dovey’s personal hatred of, 14–15
in education, 16–17, 80, 94–95
in employment, 71–72, 102
in the field of law, 88, 108–9, 110
and interstate commerce, 90–91, 93–94, 95, 97
and Jane Crow, 74
in labor unions, 68
in public transportation, 57–58, 84–85, 89–92, 93–94, 95, 97–98
and separate but equal facilities, 8, 54, 73, 96–98, 102
state laws in support of, 90–91, 93
and Supreme Court, see Supreme Court, US
in This Bird Must Fly, 83
in US armed forces, 49, 53, 55–56, 59, 60–61, 65
and violence, 9, 97, 103–4, 109
and white supremacy, 91, 102
Job Corps, 103
Johnson, Beatrice “Bea” (sister), 10, 12, 16, 19, 62, 114
Johnson, Charles, 94–95
Johnson, Dovey May, 55
after the war, 66
birth of, 10
childhood of, 10–11, 12–18, 92
and church attendance, 15–16
and college, 17–18, 22, 24–29, 32–33, 75–76
debt of, 32–33, 34, 37, 70–71, 87
in Decatur jail, 30–32
doors opening for, 66
dreams of, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 32, 35, 75, 78
faith of, 31, 32, 33
family background of, 7, 9–11, 12
and FEPC, 69–70, 71–72, 74, 77
and Grandma Rachel, see Graham, Rachel
homes of, 13, 14
inner resources of, 35
jobs held by, 24, 25, 32, 37, 40, 69–70
marriage of, 76–77; see also Roundtree, Dovey J.
as nanny, 21–22, 25
and Papa’s death, 10–11, 12, 14, 38
as public speaker, 62, 71, 74
as research assistant, 41–42
and school, 16–17, 18, 26
and segregation, 14–15
as teacher, 37, 50
in WAACs, 44–48, 49–58, 59–61, 6 0
in WACs, 60–61, 69, 71, 92
in Washington DC, 36, 41–42, 43–44, 69
Johnson, Eunice (sister), 10, 33, 37, 114
Johnson, James Eliot (Papa), 10–11, 12, 13–14, 38, 113
Johnson, Lela (Mama), 25
and Dovey’s childhood, 10–11, 13, 14
and Dovey’s work, 69–70
and Grandma Rachel’s death, 112, 114
and her husband’s death, 10, 11, 13
on public transportation, 84–85, 92
singing in the choir, 12, 113
work of, 13, 19, 20, 21–22, 37, 38
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 102
Johnson, Rachel (sister), 10, 37, 114
Jones, Rufus, 27, 29
Kelliher, Cornelius V. Jr., 121, 123
Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier, 3
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 3, 101, 102, 130, 170–71
Kennedy, Robert F., 97
Keys, David, 92, 95, 99
Keys, Sarah Louise, 89, 90–93, 95, 99
Keys vs. Carolina Coach, 92–93, 94, 95, 97
Keys vs. Safeway Trails, 92–93
King, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther Jr., 95, 96
“A Look to 1964,” 102
“I Have a Dream,” 101–2
Knox, George F. Sr., 111, 127, 133, 139, 144
Ku Klux Klan, 9, 15, 103, 104
labor unions, Jim Crow in, 68
Lamb, George Peter, 108, 132
law:
as a calling, 88–89, 98
difficult enforcement of, 91, 93, 96
Dovey’s studies of, 75–76, 78, 81–84
Jim Crow supported by, 90–91
jurisdiction in, 93–94
as key to equality, 73, 75
male vs. female lawyers, 75
as sacred thing, 82, 113, 172
Lewis, Jesse W., 86
Lucas, Ruth, 56–57, 60, 65
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963), 101–2, 103
Marine Corps, US, 64
Marine Corps Women’s Reserve, 65
Marshall, Thurgood, 80, 90, 96
Matthews, Burnita Shelton, 108–9
McCoskrie, Frank U., 60–61
McEachern, Archie N., 123, 165
McWhorter, Millard H., 24
McWhorter, Patricia Constance, 24
Meredith, James, 101
Meyer, Agnes, 109
Meyer, Cord, 171
Meyer, Mary Pinchot, 129, 131, 134
autopsy on body of, 137–39
blood samples of, 135–37, 158, 159
books about, 108, 110
Crump’s trial for killing of, see Crump, Raymond Jr., trial of
and Kennedy, 170–71
murder of, 2–4, 106, 107, 108, 158, 170–71
scene of murder of, 125, 143, 147, 148, 151–52, 160
Mighty Justice (Roundtree), 173
Mitchell, John N., 172
Mitchell, William, 106, 152, 159, 160, 162
Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in, 95
Moore, Purcell, 110, 133
Morehouse College, 24
Morgan, Albert C., 54
Morgan, Irene, 89–91
Morgan v. Virginia, 90–91, 92, 97
Moten, Etta, 29
Murphy, Francis, 100
Murray, Donald Gaines, 80
Murray, Pauli, 73–75
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), 39, 95
Crisis magazine, 91
Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), 81, 90, 93, 101
NAACP v. St. Louis–San Francisco Railroad, 93–94
Nabrit, Rev. James Madison, 26, 81
Nabrit, James Madison Jr., 81–82, 173
Nabrit, Margaret, 26
National Council for a Permanent Fair Employment Practice Committee, 68, 71
National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), 40–42, 61, 87, 172
National Enquirer, 170
National Youth Administration (NYA), 39–42
Navy, US, 64
Navy Nurse Corps, 64
Nazi Germany, 43
Neptune, Mary Mae, 27
death of, 114
and Dovey’s arrest, 31
Dovey’s debt to, 33, 34, 37, 70–71
influence of, 66, 173
at Spelman, 26–27, 32–33
News-Leader, Staunton,
Virginia, 47
New York Age, 50–51, 95
New York Amsterdam News, 102
New York City, ticker-tape parade in, 63, 69
New York Times, 95, 109, 171
Norris, Lula, 26
Officer Candidate School, 45, 46, 50, 54
Operation Overlord, 62
Orlando Morning Sentinel, 57
Oxford, Mississippi, civil rights movement in, 101–4
Packard, Sophia B., 18
Parks, Rosa, 95
Perkins, Elsie, 150–51, 158, 159
Piedmont Junior College, Rock Hill, South Carolina, 37
Pinchot, Gifford, 2
Plessy v. Ferguson, 8
Pullman Car Company, 67
Putney, Martha S., 46, 55, 61
racial prejudice vs. discrimination, 68–69
Randolph, A. Philip, 39, 66–70, 67, 71, 75, 101
Rayford, Linwood L., 137–39
Read, Florence, 31, 59, 60, 71, 86, 172
Receiving Home for Children (DC), 100–101
Reeves, Frank, 92
Roberson, Alan V., 111, 144
Robertson, Julius Winfield, 86, 88–89, 95
death of, 101
at Howard Law, 83
law practice of, see Robertson & Roundtree
Robertson & Roundtree , 87–89, 96, 100–101
and Keys case, 92–93, 94, 95
and Vanison case, 100
Rockefeller, John D. Jr., 22
Rockefeller, John D. Sr., 18, 27
Rockefeller, Laura Spelman, 18, 22
Rockefeller, Phern, 31–32, 33
Rockefeller family, 18
Rogers, Edith Nourse, 44, 60
Ronsisvalle, Joseph A., 139–40
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 42, 46
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (FDR), 39, 41, 44, 45, 53, 62, 66, 73
Roundtree, Dovey J., 174
admitted to DC Women’s Bar Association, 118–19
as advocate for children, 173
awards and honors to, 174
and bar examination, 85–86
Crump as client of, see Crump, Raymond Jr.
death of, 174
and diabetes, 82, 113, 174
early years of, see Johnson, Dovey May
extra jobs held by, 88, 95–96
free legal services offered by, 87, 172
influence of, 172–73
law practice of, 86, 87–89, 92–94, 95, 98, 99–101, 110–11, 113, 161, 172–73
and law school, 75–76, 78
marriage of, 76–77
Mighty Justice by, 173
as minister, 112–14, 115, 161
Roundtree, Dovey J. (continued)
as pioneer, 113–14
post-trial career of, 172–73
powerless folk served by, 99–101, 161, 172, 173
as public speaker, 173
reputation of, 5, 132, 172–73
retirement of, 173, 174
threats to, 118
Roundtree, Knox, Hunter & Parker, 173
Roundtree, William Andre “Bill,” 76–77
Safeway Trails bus company, 89, 92, 93
St. Elizabeths Hospital, DC, 111, 115
Savery Hotel, Des Moines, 54
Savwoir, Edward O., 123, 165, 167, 169
Schalk, Toki, 62
Schwerner, Michael, 104
segregation, see Jim Crow
Selma, Alabama, civil rights march in, 119
Semmes, Allison C., 153
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (1944) (GI Bill), 75–76
Shuman, Jerome, 111
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, 103
slavery, and US Constitution, 7
Somers, Andrew, 45
Southern Railway, 85
SPARs, 64
Spelman, Harvey and Lucy, 18
Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, 17–18, 19, 20, 31, 32, 60
Campus Mirror, 26–29, 28
Dovey as student in, 22, 24–29
“Our Whole School for Christ” motto of, 113
Sisters Chapel, 22, 23, 33
Stamm, Rev. Dr. Frederick K., 33, 35
stock market crash (1929), 19
Stombaugh, Paul Morgan, 153, 158
Supreme Court, US, and civil rights, 8, 75, 90–91, 93, 94–95, 97–98
Sylvis, Roderick, 148
Tampa Sunday Tribune, 57
Terrell, Mary Church, 36, 75
Thirteenth Amendment, 7–8
This Bird Must Fly (Robertson), 83
Thurman, Howard, 29
Trailways bus company, 96–97
Truman, Harry S., 62
Tuskegee Airmen, 63–64
United States v. Raymond Crump Jr., see Crump, Raymond Jr., trial of
US government, Black employment in, 68
Vallejo Observer, 71
Vanison, Barbara, 99–100
Vermillion, C. G., 160
VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America), 103
Vivian (girlfriend of Crump), 132–33
voting rights, and Fifteenth Amendment, 8
WAAC (Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps), 44–48, 49–58, 59–61
WAC (Women’s Army Corps), 60–61, 64, 69, 71, 92
WAC Field Manual, 52–53
Waddy, Joe, 82
Warner, John, 149
War on Poverty, 103
Warren, Earl, 94
Washington Afro-American, 174
Washington DC, racial problems in, 109
Washington Post, 109, 130
on Crump as suspect, 106, 108, 110
Crump trial described in, 123, 146–47, 166, 168, 169
on Meyer-Kennedy affair, 170–71
WASPs (Women’s Air Force Service Pilots), 65
WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, US Navy), 64
Weber, Arthur, 149–50, 152
Wester, Louise, 156
White, Walter, 39
White Man’s League, 9
white supremacy, 9, 91, 102, 103–4
Why We Are Fighting (training film), 61
Wiggins, Henry, as witness in Crump case, 3–4, 106, 108, 126, 140, 141–47, 148, 158, 160, 162, 163
Williams, J. T., 18–19
Wimbish, Edith (Edythe), 17, 22, 24, 25, 66, 173
Wimbish, Hattie, 25
Wimbish, Maggie Baker, 25–26
Winston-Salem Teachers College, 19
Woodson, Carter G., 36, 75
workplace, discrimination in, 39, 102
World War II, 38, 43, 53, 56
American women serving in, 64–65
Black Americans serving in, 63–65, 173
Black employment in, 68
D-Day, 62
deaths in, 63
end of, 62–65
and Iwo Jima, 64
Operation Overlord in, 62
and Pearl Harbor attack, 44, 46
training films in, 61
US entry into, 44
WACs in, 64
WAVES in, 64
Worrell, Randolph M., 135–37
Young, Roach, 156
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