Mighty justice : my life in civil rights

Roundtree, Dovey Johnson 1914-2018 (author.). McCabe, Katie, (author.). Jones, Tayari, (writer of foreword.).

Summary: "In Mighty Justice, trailblazing African American civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts her inspiring life story that speaks movingly and urgently to our racially troubled times. From the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, to the segregated courtrooms of the nation's capital; from the male stronghold of the army where she broke gender and color barriers to the pulpits of churches where women had waited for years for the right to minister--in all these places, Roundtree sought justice. At a time when African American attorneys had to leave the courthouses to use the bathroom, Roundtree took on Washington's white legal establishment and prevailed, winning a 1955 landmark bus desegregation case that would help to dismantle the practice of "separate but equal" and shatter Jim Crow laws. Later, she led the vanguard of women ordained to the ministry in the AME Church in 1961, merging her law practice with her ministry to fight for families and children being destroyed by urban violence."--Amazon.com.

Item details

ISBN: 9781616209551
ISBN: 1616209550
ISBN: 9781604731323
ISBN: 160473132X
Physical Description: print
xii, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Contents / Notes

General Note:	Originally published in 2009 by The University Press of Mississippi under title: Justice older than the law : the life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree. Includes discussion questions (pages [267]-269).
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-245) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Foreword / by Tayari Jones -- Walking unafraid -- Making somethin' of yourself -- "Pass it on" -- My America -- "Everybody's war" -- Uneasy peace -- Making war on a lie -- Taking on "The supreme court of the confederacy" -- At the threshold of justice -- Out of the darkness -- "Peer of the most powerful" -- Healing the brokenness -- Benediction.

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