Mighty Justice (Young Readers' Edition): The Untold Story of Civil Rights Trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree

Mighty Justice (Young Readers' Edition): The Untold Story of Civil Rights Trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree

Katie McCabe, Jabari Asim
$19.99
Publication Date: December 15th, 2020
Publisher:
Roaring Brook Press
ISBN:
9781250229007
Pages:
208
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Description

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

About the Author

KATIE McCABE is the co-author, with Dovey Johnson Roundtree, of Roundtree's biography Mighty Justice, winner of the Association of Black Women Historians' Letitia Woods Brown Award. Her National Magazine Award-winning article on Black medical legend Vivien Thomas was the basis for the Emmy-winning HBO film Something the Lord Made.

Jabari Asim is the author of several adult and children's books, including Preaching to the Chickens which was named one of the New York Times Best Illustrated Books of 2016 and Fifty Cents and a Dream-an NAACP Image Award Nominee, CCBC Choice, School Library Journal Editor's Choice, and Kirkus Best Book. He is an associate professor at Emerson College in Boston and executive editor of The Crisis, the magazine of the NAACP. He recently was honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

Praise for Mighty Justice (Young Readers' Edition): The Untold Story of Civil Rights Trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree

*"A moving memoir of a true American ­heroine." ?School Library Journal, starred review

"[A]n informative, third-person biography of a strong, multifaceted Black woman who worked effectively for racial equality at a pivotal time." ?Booklist