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Justice older than the law : the life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree / Katie McCabe and Dovey Johnson Roundtree.
- Title
- Justice older than the law : the life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree / Katie McCabe and Dovey Johnson Roundtree.
- Author
- McCabe, Katie
- Publication
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2009]
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- Additional Authors
- Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, 1914-2018
- Description
- xvi, 259 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
- Uniform Title
- Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
- Subject
- Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, 1914-2018
- Lawyers > United States > Biography
- African American lawyers > Biography
- Women lawyers > United States > Biography
- Segregation in transportation > Law and legislation > History. > United States
- Segregation > Law and legislation > History. > United States
- Civil rights > United States > History
- Avocats > États-Unis > Biographies
- Avocats noirs américains > Biographies
- Avocates > États-Unis > Biographies
- Droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire
- African American lawyers
- Civil rights
- Lawyers
- Race relations
- Segregation in transportation > Law and legislation
- Segregation > Law and legislation
- Women lawyers
- United States > Race relations > History
- États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- Biography
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- History
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Walking unafraid -- Making somethin' of yourself -- "Pass it on" : Spelman and the legacy of Mae Neptune -- My America -- "Everybody's war" -- Uneasy peace -- Making war on a lie : the assault on Plessy v. Ferguson -- Taking on "the Supreme Court of the confederacy" : the case of Sarah Louise Keys -- At the threshold of justice -- Out of the darkness -- "Peer of the most powerful" -- Healing the brokenness -- Benediction.
- ISBN
- 9781604731323
- 160473132X
- 9781617031212
- 1617031216
- 9781604737745
- 1604737743
- LCCN
- 2008045574
- OCLC
- 262944850
- SCSB-10400348
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library