Mighty Justice (Young Readers' Edition) - by Katie McCabe & Jabari Asim (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A young reader's adaptation of <i>Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights</i>, the memoir of activist and trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree, by Katie McCabe.<br></b><br>Raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the height of Jim Crow, Dovey Johnson Roundtree felt the sting of inequality at an early age and made a point to speak up for justice. She was one of the first Black women to break the racial and gender barriers in the US Army; a fierce attorney in the segregated courtrooms of Washington, DC; and a minister in the AME church, where women had never before been ordained as clergy. In 1955, Roundtree won a landmark bus desegregation case that eventually helped end "separate but equal" and dismantle Jim Crow laws across the South. <p/>Developed with the full support of the Dovey Johnson Roundtree Educational Trust and adapted from her memoir, this book brings her inspiring, important story and voice to life. <p/><b>A Junior Library Guild Selection</b></p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Dovey Johnson Roundtree </b>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. <p/><b>Katie McCabe</b> is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the <i>Washingtonian Magazine</i>, <i>Baltimore Magazine</i>, and <i>Reader's Digest</i>, among others. Her National Magazine Award-winning article on black medical legend Vivien Thomas was the basis for the HBO film <i>Something the Lord Made</i>, winner of three Emmys and a 2005 Peabody award. <p/><b>Jabari Asim</b> is the author of several adult and children's books, including <i>Preaching to the Chickens</i> which was named one of the <i>New York Times</i> Best Illustrated Books of 2016 and<i> Fifty Cents and a Dream</i>-an NAACP Image Award Nominee, Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice, <i> School Library Journal</i> Editor's Choice, and<i> Kirkus</i> Best Book. He is an associate professor at Emerson College in Boston and executive editor of<i> The Crisis</i>, the magazine of the NAACP. He recently was honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.</p>
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