Dovey Johnson Roundtree
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The late Civil Rights attorney and activist shares a poignant moment from her childhood beside her wise grandmother, who taught Roundtree the values of self-worth, strength and justice that inspired the co-author's boundary-breaking career.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Presents an adaptation of Dovey Johnson Roundtree's "Mighty Justice" about African American civil rights attorney, Dovey Johnson Roundtree, who recounts her life and career, discussing her 1955 landmark bus desegregation case that would help to dismantle the practice of "separate but equal" and dismantle the Jim Crow laws and more."--
