Title:	Justice older than the law : the life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree
Authors:	Katie, McCabe
Keywords:	Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, 1914–
Issue Date:	2009
Publisher:	Mississippi
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
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9495
ISBN:	978-1-60473-132-3
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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