A beautiful and uplifting non-fiction picture book from
trailblazing civil rights lawyer and activist Dovey Johnson
Roundtree.
Dovey Johnson
Roundtree was an attorney and minister who was one of the first women
to be commissioned an Army officer and who helped win a landmark case
banning segregation in interstate bus travel. She died in 2018 at the
age of 104.
Katie McCabe is a
freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Washingtonian
Magazine, Baltimore Magazine, and Reader's Digest, among others. Her
National Magazine Award-winning article on black medical legend
Vivien Thomas was the basis for the HBO film Something the Lord Made,
winner of three Emmys and a 2005 Peabody award.
