MIGHTY JUSTICE: My Life in Civil Rights.
by Roundtree, Dovey Johnson and Katie McCabe. Foreword by Tayari Jones
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- Fine in illustrated wrappers.
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About This Item
Chapel Hill, NC:: Algonquin Books,, 2019.. First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A memoir of this trailblazing African American civil rights attorney, published shortly after her death in 2018 at the age of 104. "At a time when African American attorneys had to leave the courthouses to use the bathroom, Roundtree took on Washingtons 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." Foreword by Tayari Jones.Notes, selection of discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, index. 271 pp.
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 85083
- Title
- MIGHTY JUSTICE: My Life in Civil Rights.
- Author
- Roundtree, Dovey Johnson and Katie McCabe. Foreword by Tayari Jones
- Format/Binding
- First edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in illustrated wrappers.
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books,
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill, NC:
- Date Published
- 2019.
- Keywords
- autobiography, segragation, attorney, arc, african american history, uncorrected proof,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Civil Rights / Black Power Movements;
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