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The product of a 12-year collaboration between Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe, this richly voiced first-person memoir traces Dovey's journey from impoverished child in the Jim Crow South to champion for the voiceless in the Nation's Capital.  

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"Dovey Johnson Roundtree set a new path for women and proved that the vision and perseverance of a single individual can turn the tides of history."      
                                                                                     Michelle Obama

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Oprah Pick
January
2020

Dovey's legacy to young people continues with a young-reader biography and a picture book, both Junior Library Guild selections. 

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