Mighty justice : my life in civil rights
(Book)
Contributors
McCabe, Katie, author.
Published
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019.
ISBN
9781616209551, 1616209550
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Batavia Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction | 340.092 ROU | On Shelf |
Bellwood Public Library - Stacks | B ROU | On Shelf |
Berwyn Public Library - Stacks | 340.092 ROU | On Shelf |
Calumet City Public Library - Adult Biography | BIOOGRAPHY ROUNDTREE | On Shelf |
Eisenhower Public Library District - Stacks | 323.1196 ROU | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
African American lawyers -- United States -- Biography.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Civil rights -- United States -- History.
History.
Lawyers -- United States -- Biography.
Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, -- 1914-2018.
Segregation -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Segregation in transportation -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
Women lawyers -- United States -- Biography.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Civil rights -- United States -- History.
History.
Lawyers -- United States -- Biography.
Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, -- 1914-2018.
Segregation -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Segregation in transportation -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
Women lawyers -- United States -- Biography.
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Published
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xii, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781616209551, 1616209550
Notes
General Note
Originally published in 2009 by The University Press of Mississippi under title: Justice older than the law : the life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-245) and index.
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 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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Roundtree, D. J., & McCabe, K. (2019). Mighty justice: my life in civil rights . Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, 1914-2018 and Katie, McCabe. 2019. Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, 1914-2018 and Katie, McCabe. Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, and Katie McCabe. Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019.
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