Justice older than the law : the life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree

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dc.contributor.author	Katie, McCabe	-
dc.date.accessioned	2018-10-12T06:05:50Z	-
dc.date.available	2018-10-12T06:05:50Z	-
dc.date.issued	2009	-
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-60473-132-3	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9495	-
dc.description	J ustice Older than the Law was born, in the form presented in these pages, at the funeral of a child. His name was Damion Dwayne Blocker, and on the nineteenth day of January in 1996, in his fourteenth year, he was gunned down in the stairwell of the Washington, DC, elementary school where he’d gone to pick up his five-year-old cousin. The two masked gunmen who shot Damion had, the newspaper said, been aiming for someone else. It seemed a death without meaning, the kind that breeds searing rage. The moment I entered the church, I felt it. Like a living thing the anger moved through the great chapel they call “the cathedral of Southeast,” charging the air in a way that frightened me	-
dc.language	en	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Mississippi	en_US
dc.subject	Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, 1914–	en_US
dc.title	Justice older than the law : the life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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