**A young reader's adaptation of Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil
Rights, the memoir of activist and trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree,
by Katie McCabe.
**
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.
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.
A Junior Library Guild Selection