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Join us for GAWL's first virtual Just Books Club meeting on Wednesday, May 27th at 7:00 PM. We will be discussing the memoir Mighty Justice by Dovey Johnson Roundtree. Read and join the conversation as we create community in the midst of life's new challenges. Free to members. This event will be held via Zoom. Your confirmation email will contain Zoom meeting details.
"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."
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- Online Event via Zoom
