"Dovey Johnson Roundtree set a new path for women and proved that the
vision and perseverance of a single individual can turn the tides of
history."
--Michelle Obama
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.
Dovey Roundtree passed away in 2018 at the age of 104. Though her
achievements were significant and influential, she remains largely
unknown to the American public. Mighty Justice corrects the historical
record.
