| Description |
xii, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Originally published in 2009 by The University Press of Mississippi under title: Justice older than the law : the life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree. |
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Includes discussion questions (pages [267]-269). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-245) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / by Tayari Jones -- Walking unafraid -- Making something' 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, 1914-2018.
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Lawyers -- United States -- Biography.
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African American lawyers -- United States -- Biography.
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Women lawyers -- United States -- Biography.
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Segregation in transportation -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
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Segregation -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Race relations -- History.
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Civil rights -- United States -- History.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Lawyers & Judges.
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African American lawyers. (OCoLC)fst00799218
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Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00862627
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Lawyers. (OCoLC)fst00994346
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Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
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Segregation in transportation -- Law and legislation.
(OCoLC)fst01111236
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Segregation -- Law and legislation.
(OCoLC)fst01111209
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Women lawyers. (OCoLC)fst01178096
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
McCabe, Katie, author.
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Jones, Tayari, writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9781616209551 (paperback) |
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1616209550 (paperback) |
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9781604731323 (cloth) |
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160473132X (cloth) |
