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A beautiful and uplifting non-fiction picture book from Katie McCabe and trailblazing civil rights lawyer and activist Dovey Johnson Roundtree, We Wait for the Sun.In the hour before dawn, Dovey Mae and Grandma Rachel step into the cool, damp night on a secret mission: to find the sweetest, ripest blackberries that grow deep in the woods.But the nighttime holds a thousand sounds-and a thousand shadows-and Dovey Mae is frightened of the dark. B...

A young reader's adaptation of Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights, the memoir of activist and trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree, by Katie McCabe.Raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the height of Jim Crow, Dovey Johnson Roundtree felt the sting of inequality at an early age and made a point to speak up for justice. She was one of the first Black women to break the racial and gender barriers in the US Army, a fierce attorney in the se...

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Profiles of great women who have been overshadowed by their writer or artist husband, boyfriend or lover, such as Dora Maar, the photographer reduced to 'Picasso's lover', and Alma Reville, the backseat director of Hitchcock's films.

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