Justice Older Than The Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree with Author Katie McCabe

Location: Sisterspace and Books
3717 Georgia Avenue N.W.
Washington, DC 20010

Discussion and Booksigning. The Bethel Dukes Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) will sponsor a book talk/signing by Mrs. Katie McCabe, co-author of Justice Older Than The Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree.  "From the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina to the segregated courtrooms of the nation’s capital from the white male stronghold of Howard University Law School, from the pulpits of churches where woman had waited years for the right to minister – in all these places Dovery Johnson Roundtree (b. 1914) sought justice.  Though she is a legendary African American figure in the legal community of Washington, D.C., she remains largely unknown to the American public.  Justice Older than the Law is her story, the product of a remarkable, ten-year collaboration with National Magazine Award-winner Katie McCabe.  As a protégé of Mary McLeod Bethune, Roundtree became one of the first women to break the gender and color barriers in the United States military.  Inspired by Thurgood Marshall and James Madison Nabrit, Jr., Roundtree went on to make history by winning a 1955 bus desegregation case, Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company.  That decision demolished “separate but equal” in the realm of interstate transportation and enabled Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to combat southern resistance to the Freedom Eiders’ campaign in 1961."The Bethel Dukes Branch, ASALH (www.asalh.org) is a Washington, D.C. based branch of the ASALH.  This branch was established on July 14, 1974 and meets bi-monthly to promote the mission/legacy of ASALH founder, Dr. Carter G. Woodson.  Membership in ASALH is open to everyone interested in promoting Black History.