Mighty Justice is the story of one woman’s walk toward a greater justice.
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Alone, Dovey Roundtree defied World War II military segregation in a high-risk showdown with her Army superiors.
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As a new attorney, she wrested a 1955 Jim Crow bus travel ban from the staunchly segregationist Interstate Commerce Commission.
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The summer Watts burned, she took on the federal government in her successful defense of the Black man accused of murdering an outspoken JFK mistress with CIA ties.
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In her half century at the bar and in the vanguard of women in the pulpit, Dovey shattered barrier after barrier while the male-dominated power structure – even within the civil rights movement – did its best to ignore her.
Mighty Justice, the product of a 12-year collaboration between Dovey Roundtree and National Magazine Award winner Katie McCabe, rights that wrong.
"Like its author, Mighty Justice is many things at once. It is a call to arms for those who refuse to allow the nation to be dragged back into the dark days of segregation and blatant injustice. It is a how-to guide for those already performing freedom work. For those who are tired and discouraged, it is a rousing reminder that change will come for those who are persistent. For those who know little about the route from the hard-won battle to end American apartheid, in your hand is an education."
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Tayari Jones, New York Times bestelling author of American Marriage, from the Foreword to Mighty Justice.
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