Dovey Undaunted: A Black Woman Breaks Barriers in the Law, the Military, and the Ministry
Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author Tonya Bolden chronicles the life of an intrepid lawyer and civil rights pioneer.Dovey Johnson Roundtree was most famous for her successful defense of an indigent Black man accused of the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer, a prominent white Washington, DC, socialite, in 1965. Despite her triumph in this high-profile case, Roundtree continued to represent the poor and the underserved. She was the first lawyer to bring a bus desegregation case before the Interstate Commerce Commission, clinching the ruling that enabled Robert F. Kennedy to enforce bus integration. She was also among the first Black women to ent…
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- ISBN: 978-1-324-00318-2
- EAN: 9781324003182
- Produktnummer: 36723234
- Verlag: Norton Young Readers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 15 black-and-white photographs
- Sonstiges: Ab 9 - 12 J.
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Tonya Bolden is a children's writer who has authored more than forty books. She has received a Coretta Scott King Book Award honor as well as the James Madison Award. She lives in the Bronx, New York.
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