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Format:

Book

Author:

Asim, Jabari, 1962- adapter.

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.

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.

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:

Biographies.

Other Author:

Adaptation of (expression): McCabe, Katie. Justice older than the law.

Adaptation of (expression): Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, 1914-2018. Mighty justice.

McCabe, Katie, author.

Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, 1914-2018, author.

Notes:

"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN:

2020916485

ISBN:

9781250229007

1250229006

Other Number:

1225199907

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

878688

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

j BIO Roundtre