Roundtree was a Women's Army Corps member who used the GI Bill to attend law school at Howard University School of Law. Then she started a law firm in Washington, D.C. and won a landmark Civil Rights case, Sarah Keys vs. Carolina Coach Company in 1955, and helped to secure a ban against racial segregation in interstate bus travel.
"Evers and Roundtree are part of a generation of black veterans who use their service as a way to launch their involvement with the Civil Rights Movement," says Delmont. "They're making sure that the United States is a place where freedom and democracy will be true for all people, and they came back and fight for that."
--GreGen
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