The last post didn't have much on her military service so I looked further.
From VA News "Veteran of the Day."
Dovey was born in 1914 in North Carolina and graduated from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1938 and briefly taught school in South Carolina before enlisting in the U.S. Army. She was recruited by Dr. Mary Bethune, among with 39 other black women for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), later became just the Women's Army Corps (WAC).
Dovey achieved the rank of captain and was responsible for the recruitment of other black women into the unit.
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From Wikipedia "Women's Army Corps."
Black women served in the WAAC and WAC. Black women serving in the WAC experienced segregation in much the same fashion as they had in civilian life. Some billets accepted WACs of any race, but others didn't.. Black womnen were taught the same specialties as white women and the races were not separated in at specialty training schools.
The U.S. Army goal was to have 10% of all WACs be Blacks, to reflect the U.S. population, but a shortage of recruits brought only 5.1% black women to the WAC.
The first black woman to become a commissioned officer was Charity Adams Earley.
--GreGen
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