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Mighty justice : the untold story of civil rights trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree

2020

Format:	Book
Author:	Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, 1914-2018, author.
Title:	Mighty justice : the untold story of civil rights trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree / Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe ; adapted by Jabari Asim.

Edition:	First young reader's edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2020. ©2020
Description:	200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary:	A biography of Dovey Johnson Roundtree--one of the first black women to break the racial and gender barriers in the US Army, and an attorney in the segregated courtrooms of Washington, D.C.
Notes:	Includes index. "Adapted from the book Justice older than the law : the life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree by Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe, originally published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2009 and reissued as Mighty justice : my life in civil rights by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing, in 2019."-- Title page verso.

Subjects:	Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, 1914-2018 -- Juvenile literature. African American women lawyers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Women lawyers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Segregation -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature. Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Genre:	Autobiographies.
Other Author:	Asim, Jabari, 1962- adapter. Adaptation of (expression): McCabe, Katie. Justice older than the law. Adaptation of (expression): Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, 1914-2018. Mighty justice. McCabe, Katie, author.

ISBN:	9781250229007 (hbk.) 1250229006 (hbk.)
Control Number:	1880067

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