{"product_id":"mighty-justice-my-life-in-civil-rights-paperback","title":"Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDovey Johnson Roundtree\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKatie McCabe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTayari Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Dovey Johnson Roundtree set a new path for women and proved that the vision and perseverance of a single individual can turn the tides of history.\" \u003cbr\u003e --Michelle Obama\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMighty Justice\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cbr\u003e Dovey Roundtree passed away in 2018 at the age of 104. Though her achievements were significant and influential, she remains largely unknown to the American public. \u003ci\u003eMighty Justice\u003c\/i\u003e corrects the historical record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDovey Johnson Roundtree was an attorney and minister who was of the first women to be commissioned an Army officer and who helped win a landmark case banning segregation in interstate bus travel. She died in 2018 at the age of 104. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Katie McCabe is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eWashingtonian Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBaltimore Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eReader's Digest\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. Her National Magazine Award-winning article on black medical legend Vivien Thomas was the basis for the HBO film \u003ci\u003eSomething the Lord Made\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of three Emmys and a 2005 Peabody award.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770651705632,"sku":"9781616209551","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e1ed0d96f431c38a7811e38b8efeec06.webp?v=1780376392","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/mighty-justice-my-life-in-civil-rights-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}