Dovey Johnson Roundtree was an attorney and minister who was of the first women to be commissioned an Army officer and who helped win a landmark case banning segregation in interstate bus travel. She died in 2018 at the age of 104.
Katie McCabe is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the
Washingtonian Magazine,
Baltimore Magazine, and
Reader's Digest, among others. Her National Magazine Award-winning article on black medical legend Vivien Thomas was the basis for the HBO film
Something the Lord Made, winner of three Emmys and a 2005 Peabody award.
Jabari Asim is the author of several adult and children's books, including
Preaching to the Chickens which was named one of the
New York Times Best Illustrated Books of 2016 and
Fifty Cents and a Dream-an NAACP Image Award Nominee, Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice,
School Library Journal Editor's Choice, and
Kirkus Best Book. He is an associate professor at Emerson College in Boston and executive editor of
The Crisis, the magazine of the NAACP. He recently was honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
